Mozart - Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 [complete]
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2012
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581, was written in 1789 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. A clarinet quintet is a work for one clarinet and a string quartet (two violins, a viola and a cello). Although originally written for basset clarinet, it is almost always played on a clarinet in A or B-flat. It was Mozart's only completed clarinet quintet, and is one of the earliest and best-known works written especially for the instrument. It remains exceptionally popular today due to its lyrical melodies, with the second movement the best known. A fragment of score exists for a second (though possibly written first) clarinet quintet in B-flat, of which a complete exposition survives. It is possible that Mozart completed the movement, as the score continues into the development section on the last surviving page. This fragment is unlikely to be a sketch, as it bears no marks of correction. Nevertheless, the A major quintet is Mozart's sole surviving complete work for clarinet quintet.
The composer indicated that the work was finished on 29 September 1789. This quintet is sometimes referred to as the Stadler Quintet; Mozart so described it in a letter of April 1790. It consists of four movements:
1. Allegro, 4/4
2. Larghetto, 3/4 in D major
3. Menuetto - Trio I - Trio II, 3/4 (Trio I in A minor)
4. Allegretto con Variazioni, 2/2
There are a number of similarities between this quintet and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Both are in the same 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, although they have different tempo markings. There is a direct quotation of two bars in the clarinet line in the second movement of the Concerto of that in the Quintet.
Mozart also wrote a trio for clarinet, viola and piano for Stadler, the so-called Kegelstatt Trio, in 1786.
Alfred Einstein (Mozart: His Character and Work, page 194) 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.
Along with his Clarinet Concerto, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet is considered one of Pope Benedict XVI's favorite works of music. The Quintet was famously used in "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", the final episode of the television series M*A*S*H. A subplot of the episode has one of the main characters, Major Charles Winchester, teaching the piece to a group of Chinese prisoners of war.
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RIP Charles. I'll never listen to this song the same way without thinking of you in the finale.
so true... kind of bound at the hip for so many of us. This fantastic piece stands all by itself so artfully. Charles then told us all to STOP!-- .... and listen to THIS.
so true...never listen the same way ....
Song? It's a clarinet quintet - no-one's singing!
@@xanderjcliffe-musicreviews7740 He wasn't. 'Charles' is the character, Charles Emerson Winchester III from the TV show M*A*S*H. Played by the late David Ogden Stiers. He loved classical music and this piece was used in the series finale, Goodbye Farewell and Amen.
InstaBlaster...
I never knew this piece until the finale of MASH. While I'm not really a fan of Classical Music this piece never fails to move me!
I never thought the clarinet was my instrument, but Mozart's clarinet quintet and clarinet concerto make me think otherwise. Never knew you could get such beautiful expressionism out of that instrument.
From my favourite composer Mozart
I remember my first clinical depression, and how this piece along with many others, miraculously cured me where drugs had failed.
justacondom What are the other pieces that cured your depression?
mmm Lol.
+justacondom Classical music in general heals. It's been a big part of my life since my early childhood. I was pretty much raised listening to Chpin, Mozart and other well known composers. I guess that explains my love for classical music. Music is the one thing in my life that always stays even when everyone leaves.
+justacondom Beethoven nine sinfony cured me hahaha iits a magic musics..
+Max Walczak This piece is boring?? Your brains need a check!!
Stunning... so tender... it was this piece that made me dedicate my life to Mozart.
I. Allegro - 0:07 - 9:48
II. Larghetto - 9:56 - 17:14
III. Menuetto - 17:17 - 24:47
IV. Allegretto con Variazioni - 24:49 - end
Benji Robinson Thanks!
Thank you so much for spitting it our
thank you very much I thought I never find this
(Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 )gorgeous .... this is Mozart the great ... you can dream freely on this pictural and so glamorous, romantic, nostalgic music, everything in it, childhood memories, first love, the first beautiful relationship of friendship, dreams and again dreams of a fantastic, utopian future, but built in your thoughts with a warm heart, rediscovering yourself more generous than you knew you were, much more compelling :)
Another masterpiece that sings and soothes my heart. Thank you for uploading this music.
When my Father was dying I came back from Holland to San Diego and I remember listening to this piece on the family stero and in the car. Such poignant memories.
I feel sorry for you
Certainly one of my favorite pieces by WAM. It has an almost romantic french feel with that clarinet. Transports me to a rustic village of the most beautiful colors. I remember listening to it, lost in my senses staring at the way the lamps were reflected on the endless undulations of the oceans surface. And the last mvt variations are ecstatically joyful... Speechless
the 2nd mvt with those heavenly suspensions...is where I officially come undone and feel at peace all at once; sempre bellissima
How rare listening to this music is, we are full of programmes which only offer modern pop music, but where is the sense of music without listening to pieces like this?
Mozart remains one of the best composers ever existed.
I'm not sure if "rare" is the best word describing this piece. I don't know where you live but I live in a mid-size American city and the local orchestra performs 7-9 Mozart pieces every season. And Mozart, especially famous pieces like this Clarinet Quintet, is all too easy to find in chamber music recitals.
Yes, so to bring you back down to earth consider that Mozart is possibly the most popular composer in history and therefore that puts your musical taste into THE most popular of all, the least distinguished or special of all, and given that modern pop is less successful then maybe those listeners are actually the more remarkable for it. In it's time, this was pop music.
As much as I love Mozart's music, sometimes it all starts to sound the same. I played his clarinet concerto for 2 years and I couldn't perform any piece by mozart for another full year after I finished... But now I'm considering learning this on clarinet just in case I need to perform it someday
@Paige Elmquist Mozart has thousands of pieces, many different carachters, but maybe youre stuck with listening to his pieces that are similar between each other.
I recommend listening to his
Piano concerto 24 1st mov,
Dissonance String Quartet,
Grosse Messe k 427 (first couple movements)
Exultate jubilate
Fantasie k 475,
Canon in C k.562c (by antonius spiller)
Piano sonata 18 2nd mov,
Fantasie k 608 2nd mov (2 pianos version),
Violín sonata 27 adagio 1 mov, Sinfonía concertante k 364 2nd mov
Don Giovanni a cenar Teco m' invitasti
This examples Will show you the diversity of Mozarts composition, there are hundreds more, Keep in mind.
@@pae913 the same happenned to me, learned 3 Mozart piano Sonatas and then couldnt stand to hear one more of Mozart for quite some time, specially those piano Sonatas. I almost started hating them.
It all depends of how woke and lucid my mind is at the moment. What energy i have, etc.
Sunday morning... tea brewing... rattling of breakfast plates.. smell of toast... and Mozart's clarinet quintet playing from the study.
Paul Richard I think of sunlight.
Yes.............!
Ahh...such beautiful narrative.
I could hear the plates smell (and almost) taste the toast with marmalade.
And with Wolfgang for breakfast, cannot top that!
Go to church on Sunday.
mood
I've often found that vast beauty can touch the me in even the most numb
and hopeless of depressed states. This one is awesome as it sneaks up
on the saddened heart, offering deep understanding ... but once it got
you deeply wrapped, it shows a different light, a sunny side! It truly
is a life saver, as well as very sad. Not romantic sad, no
self-indulgent tragedy here, this is truly sad. And truly joyous...
(shrug) ... it's Mozart, it's life.
So, Am4d3usM0z4rt, thank you ever so for uploading, and writing all the interesting information, so one can leave here not just happier, but smarter, too.
I don't know who this Mozart guy is but the song he wrote for the M*A*S*H finale is catchy.
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Yeah I gotta catch him next time he tours!
Antony Pay - clarinet, Iona Brown - violin, Malcolm Latchem - violin, Stephen Shingles - viola, Denis Vigay - cello, Academy of St Martin's chamber ensemble.
are you sure? I was just wandering about performers, this reminds me the firts version I've heard of this piece and it wasn't Pay's. surely it isn't his version with period instrument...
Klarinettist Jack Brimer einer meiner Freunde
www.amazon.com/Mozart-Clarinet-Quintet-Academy-Ensemble/dp/B00000411T
@@user-mo5cw8wp4w That's not him here
That sounds like Gervase de Peyer on DG on here
Good to know that people are still watching M*A*S*H... and that Charles is still inspiring people to listen to classical music. :)
Love it!!!
До сих пор смотрят! Любят этих героев, сопереживают им, смеются и плачут вместе с ними. Мэш - это любовь на всю жизнь!❤
I have a great Mozart CD by the Academy Of St, Martin In The Fields with 3 of wonderful Mozart works; 1. Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581. 2. Horn Quintet in E Flat, K. 407. 3. Oboe Quintet in F, K-370. But, this Clarinet Quintet is a masterpiece and one of my favorite Mozart pieces.
The Larghetto is mentioned by S. Suzuki in his book so I tracked down this recording. It is a beautiful motiff. It appears # 955 and about at 1417. What a discovery. Thanks for bringing this to UA-cam
Beyond Human
voici une des plus belles musique jamais écrite avec autant de qualité de douceur , de compassion de raffinnement dans le sens de la mélodie .
Je suis d'accord !!
the first movement, to me, is incredibly sad it has caused me to cry before
Beautiful... simply beautiful!
Almost as beautiful as his Clarinet Concerto. What a great composer Mozart was!!!
I don't really like a ton of music from the classical era, I'm more into the Romantic composers, but this is definitely one of my favorite pieces of classical music. I love the wistful feeling you get from the clarinet and the almost dark parts of the sound at times.
Deep emotion are reaching my heart which is in the cherry blossoms in full bloom while being bathed in a blizzard of falling cherry blossoms petals at the brilliant night of the full moon .
One of the calmest First movements ever.... very earwormish
Divine
Chico Lopes Yes, Divine!
Thanks for the detailed notes. Heard part of this on the radio last night and thought it was the Clarinet concerto...now I know why.
I'm not sure how popular the 2nd movement is, but I do know that the 1st and 4th movements are. I too, remember that the 1st movement was used in M*A*S*H as well. It was definitely appropriate that it got used that way. I thought that it was funny how Maj. Charles Winchester conducted it at that time as well. This is an excellent performance of the quintet as well. Thanks for posting it guys.
trying to get familiar with classical music and broaden my horizons
+Darnell Joseph go for it mate
you might be surprised at how much stuff you actually recognise - it's used in movies, jingles, commercials and TV show themes, sports etc etc etc and you now get to hear the unadulterated versions, written in the 1700s and 1800s for original instruments, not samplers or tone-generators
if you're starting out - try the "cheesy" list :
Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchiakowski, JS Bach
Most will have written Symphonies, which is a whole orchestra; most will also have written Concertos, which are like a symphony but there is a star performer who takes centre-stage (clarinet, or piano, or violin, or cello etc) and most will have written smaller pieces for a group (like this video) of instruments and also works for a solo instrument..... also Operas - basically a musical; also religious pieces.
Maybe try finding all those different types of pieces for those artists. Some you might not like, some you may love ! But take your time and don't be influenced by what you might read - make your own mind up after you've listened.
For me, I love Mozart, a white guy from 1790's Austria; but I also love Scott Joplin, a black guy from 1900's America. Worlds apart, apart from their beautiful music
hope this helps
:-)
According to 'Shazam' (plus a bit of research) it is performed by Antony Pay - clarinet, Iona Brown - violin, Malcolm Latchem - violin, Stephen Shingles - viola, Denis Vigay - cello, Academy of St Martin's chamber ensemble. I also listened to a sample of the same recording on iTunes and Shazam gave the same answer (which is not always the case).
The recording is probably quite old. I heard the Academy at an Aldeburgh Festival concert in the late 1960s when Iona Brown was their leader.
Ronald Manley I owe you a gin.
Who is Shazam?
I think this recording might be performed by Emma Johnson with Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Rebecca Hirsch, Tim Boulton and Andrew Shulman, which is the nearest recording.
This is my all-time favourite work by Mozart, and A major is my favourite key such as his Piano Concertos Nos.12 and 23 [also my favourite of Mozart`s] and relaxing in my lounge when reading a book or go to bed and dream away.
Thanks a bunch for this wonderful Mozart Treat.
I played clarinet in school as a teenager, would have loved this piece.
27:49
The 3rd variation from 4th movement. It's my favorite part of this beautiful music!🤣
Gentlemen, please... Mozart!
21:33 my favorite part !
I have been looking everywhere for this. thank you so very much
Slow movement, it's great when the clarinetist comes in really soft at the coda, but if the strings can't or won't play their triplet figure softer, the clarinet's got to bring the volume up to balance it so we hear the melody.
Incredibly beautiful
Como siempre, Mozart es un clásico de clásicos que exige y contagia exquisitez!!!
MASH got me sobbing here again dammit
Glad I'm not the only one.
И я плачу прямо сейчас❤
Giant Mozart, one of three pieces he composed for that beautiful instrument, the clarinet. Even though his concert in A minor is the best one, this quintet doesn't stand so far behind
Why the dislikes above? This group plays it beautifully.
Makes it seem for a moment as if all is right with the world.
Yes, that's my feeling as well!
Well, for a moment in this music, all IS in equilibrium with this world. It is only later we discover the footprint it makes is eternal. :)
1789 is the year of the french (bourgeois) revolution, which capitalism is still leaving it's massive overwhelminly destructive footprint
that's why i looked for that piece right now and why i love it, sometimes my mother choosed it on late x-mess evenings, when presents were already given, delicious foods were eaten, everything done, we were sitting in the smell of candles and fir needles and a soft peace and silence layed about all these meaningless but nice habits, then the music spread it's depth and magic and made us dream of eternity, love, beauty and a deeper sense of life
Well put
모짜르트 크라이넷 5중주곡^^^ 분위기있는곡과함께 따듯한차한잔과 창가에서 *☆☆☆ 내리는비를보며 참좋은시간입니다=
✌😀✌😂😏
A lot of comments say that we are lucky to be able to listen to this beautiful music. I personally feel much happier about even being able to appreciate his music after 27 years of being fed mass-produced, junk-music. If each piece of music in the world were represented by grains of sand, Mozart would be the wind that effortlessly and unknowingly guides it. The ocean that came before the desert. The oasis that flourishes with life and colour. I'm on a learning curve like none I've experienced.
Esto te lleva al cielo en segundos y te hace sentir emociones hermosas¡¡
Música maravillosa. Nutre y eleva el alma.
El anti-depresivo natural.
Beautiful performance ! Thanks for posting :)
Dear Pina
This because Mozart was a gift of God to our existence
Que belleza de hombre Dios mio gracias por haberlo creado para que nos deleitará a los seres humanos sensibles y de gusto exquisito con sus maravillosas composiciones. Amadeus el amado de Dios y de las mujeres!!!!
probably the most beautiful piece of music ever written...
it is hard not to like/appreciate this music even if its the first time someone listens to classical music
This quintet in the history of clarinet compositions remains the most unrepeatable one for poetry and sonority.Clarinet also appears in the Aria of Vitellia from the Mozart Opera Clemenza di Tito- both compositions dedicated to his friend Stadler who gave some modifications to the wind instrument the so-called basset clarinet
Anyone here from MASH? Poor Charles. The best final episode for the best show EVER. So many laughs and cries from that show.
It's kind of hard to hear this piece and NOT think of Charles.
that is the reason I began listening to it. then I fell in love with this piece.
Marshal Beard i hear this from MASH. And the fate of those musicians was tragic af
Marshal Beard Mash brought a lot of people here it seems
Marshal Beard, that part really tore me up. I remember Charles trying to get them to play dolce, "DOLCE, dolce please" he would say. The Chinese didn't understand what dolce meant and mistook it for a similar sounding Chinese phrase "duo xie" meaning many thanks. Then when they were leaving, they finally played it dolce and it was beautiful, Charles was even brought to tears. It kind of reminded me of the "oh captain my captain" scene from Drad Poets Society. Then they got ambushed and they all died except for one that according to Charles "didn't even have a chest". Such a touching relationship was destroyed and tainted by that war. I can't stop thinking about it because it broke my heart
I listened to the second movement and got into my head that the movement was reminding me of Schubert's lied about the freezing old organ grinder. The same sadness coming from the composer's heart.
I do not find this sad at all, rather delightfully joyful!
Penso che in paradiso suonano questo genere di musica sublime.
Non essendo credente...posso ascoltarla soltanto su questa terra. E ne approfitto.
Thank you so very much for posting this wonderful recording. I do not know who they are, but they are fantastic. Thank you also for posting the web sites for FREE mp3's and sheet music scores, very curious as to the other sites, I'll be sure to check them out.
Top quality music!
my clarinet teacher said this was the greatest piece of chamber music ever written. he's biased of course but he might right.
Schubert quintet?
Brahms quintet?
So this piece has a great following and it is very pleasant and probably amongst the best things that WAM wrote. In my view lots of Bach concertos would blow this out of the water. More profound, more crafted, more texturally interesting, harmonically more creative and moving.
I'm not a clarinet player, and I'm inclined to agree with your teacher.
Beautiful!
Wonderful, thank you for posting
Years ago, I bought an album (as in a 33-1/3 record) that had this piece on it and when I listened to this on youtube I had a flashback! This would have been from the '80s. All my old records and turntables are gone now. But, if you listen to the beginning before the piece starts (with volume fairly high) you can hear the record noise. I think this is TASHI accompanying Richard Stoltzman on clarinet. However, also check out Gervase de Peyer and Jack Brymer for really smooth playing. MAX out!
It nearly convinces me of gods existence, it's that masterful.
+then00breaper I am convinced. Listen to the music again. *end.
"God" IS Man and "He", one's wonderful HUMAN imagination, ONLY acts through exsisting beings or men...So said Wm Blake...And I believe, as did Blake, The Arts are highest form of spiritual praise to Divinity...AND with first Mozart, then THE Beetoven, we were ALL blessed with sublime (the slow movement on THIS slk ce of heaven, is a sublime abd wrenched with Intense pathos
Alexandre Ribeiro did you know this is Mozart and not Beethoven
Alexandre Ribeiro k
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
(Psalms 19:1-3 [KJV])
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen David Ogden Stiers.
RIP! I actually sympathized with him in MASH when they made fun of him. Great actor and musician.
@@budimirzvolanek6234 He was kind of a snob but also had a very caring, human side. Winchesters's experience at MASH actually made him more grow as a person. Made him more compassionate towards others. Frank Burns on the other hand, whom Winchester replaces was a one-dimensional cartoonish character. But I still got a kick out him.
I like it . Good ole Mozart!!
oh my, i hear love
I. Allegro - 0:07
II. Larghetto - 9:56
III. Menuetto - 17:17
IV. Allegretto con Variazioni - 24:49
This, and flowing water together. The perfect therapy.
Would have used this as a photoshoot soundtrack for my next big shoot at the botanical gardens next spring. I had a clarinet girl in the lineup.
She couldn't make it.
Nagyon szép!!! Nagyon szeretem ezt a Mozart:A dúr klarinétötöst :)
Thank you !
his music is a feeling like dreaming
WELL put...Mozart claimed melodies were CONSTANTLY playing in his head...From as early as he could remember...
¡Hermosa música...!
Great performance!
And God created Mozart!
Una obra maravillosa
Final movement just stops my heart.
Very Great Mozart !
Wonderful!!😢
Meraviglioso!
I wrote in the 1980s a monophonic arrangement of this Clarinet Quintet k581, i.e. a version that lets you play the entire work, as unaltered as possible, despite solo with an instrument that produces just one single note at a time, like a clarinet or just whistling.
If Mozart had spent as *creating* each of his works as much time as I did on *arranging* this one (1/600 of Mozart), he would still be at it today... Just a (modest ;) ) comparison to "measure" his genius.
The Adagio (best IMO by french ensemble "Les Musiciens" or by Jack Brymer) can make a nice tender tune for funerals (a requiem is also a love song after all)
Thu 14 Jan 2016 20:12 GMT
When the notes descend, it reminds me of his best quartets.
Maravilloso .🐬
According to Shazam, it is The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra...
Shazam is behaving strangely lately. I shazamed a youtube of the rossini clarinet variations four times and got four different answers. Each time the piece was correct, but the performance was different, and none the right one!
It is also an anonymous period transcription for clarinet and strings after Violin Sonata K378.
The first contact with this masterpiece I've had when I was looking the last part of M*A*S*H ("Goodbye, farewell and amen").. I remember, I had tears in my eyes. And it's the same thing until today!
😀✌
Majestosamente lindo !!!
Bien dit!
This was recorded by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and released in 1980.
Performers are
Clarinet: Antony Pay
Violin: Iona Brown
Violin: Malcolm Latchem
Viola: Stephen Shingles
Cello: Denis Vigay
Link as reference - ua-cam.com/video/-HsBfaIgPY0/v-deo.html
My first tape with classical music! Can't remember the date though. :-(
very good
This is good music. Many people suspect angelic inspiration. Well, if you had lived in the cities Mozart lived in, you would have heard so many of the forgotten people of history, singing their songs, humming their tunes, pouring out their heartbreak on their inexpensive violins and their homemade oboes and bassoons. This music would sound different to you if you had been lucky enough to live in a place and time where you could feel true compassion - not general compassion, but specific compassion - for each of the musicians, talented or not, who poured out their souls within the hearing of Mozart, and who helped him to learn how to listen to the voices of angels. None of us really know what true compassion is, do we? Still, let's make an effort to not ignore the people of long-ago Austria, long forgotten in one way, and never forgotten in another way, who helped Mozart on his way to writing the music we are so fortunate to hear. Of course this music Mozart wrote could have been better: but it is very very good, and we should be grateful for it. Exodus 16:6-7.
You make it sound like you were there.
MASH brought me here. Thank you Charles Emerson Winchester the Third.
божественно
Hammer!
Nice