ExclusiveMozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, 3 - Menuetto

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, 3 - Menuetto. This beautiful piece was played by William McColl. It has Creative Commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

There are a number of similarities between this quintet and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Both are in the key of A major and were written for the same soloist, Anton Stadler. Both pieces are written for the basset clarinet, which has an extended lower range. Also, the first theme of the first movement of each piece begins with a falling minor third. Both the second movements are in the same key (D major) and have similar characters and many similar phrases, although they have different tempo markings. There is a direct quotation of two bars in the second movement of the Quintet of the clarinet line in the Concerto's second movement.

Alfred Einstein notes that while the clarinet "predominates as primus inter pares" (first amongst equals) this is nonetheless "chamber music work of the finest kind" and the roles are distributed more equally than they would be in a more concertante quintet for wind and strings.

The mountain range and the moving clouds were captured by Simone Schlegel and the video was edited by Wenjing Ma.





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