Archived Event

Mozart
Hagen Quartet; Jörg Widmann clarinet
Date
Thu 29 Jan 2015, 1.00pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Hagen Quartet
    • Jörg Widmannclarinet

    Programme

    Overview

    Mozart’s final essay in the string quartet genre, crafted in June 1790, stands among the finest achievements of the Classical period, a masterwork of formal construction, thematic contrasts and melodic invention.

    Jörg Widmann brings his special qualities as composer and performer to the interpretation of the elegiac Clarinet Quintet in A, one of the earliest and greatest works for solo clarinet and string quartet.

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