The Chilingirian’s cycle of Mozart’s six string quintets has been nine years in the making and I’m sorry to have missed the earlier instalments. This third and final volume (once again with second ...

Music Mozart intended to be played by five strings is coming up later in the hour. First, a string quintet that started out as music for winds. It's the second movement from his String Quintet, K. 404 ...

Mozart wrote his first string quintet at the age of 17, choosing to add a second viola to the string quartet (the viola was an instrument he took a particular delight in playing). But, apart from ...

The Locrian Ensemble offers polished, suave readings of these twin summits of the chamber repertory. Its uncomplicated approach works particularly well in the great first movement of K515, with its ...