Trio for clarinet (or violin), viola & piano in E flat major ("Kegelstatt"), K. 498
Movement for clarinet, 2 violins, viola & cello in B flat major (fragment), K. Anh. 91 (K. 516c)
Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst is one of the world's top players, with a creamy, utterly consistent tone that is the envy of many a young player. It may be a surprise to see him take up Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, once again; he recorded it in the early 2000s with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, along with its usual partner on disc, the Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581. But there are several new things this time around. First of all, the orchestra, in this case the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, is ...
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Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst is one of the world's top players, with a creamy, utterly consistent tone that is the envy of many a young player. It may be a surprise to see him take up Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, once again; he recorded it in the early 2000s with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, along with its usual partner on disc, the Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581. But there are several new things this time around. First of all, the orchestra, in this case the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, is conducted by Fröst himself, and the concerto has a really startling lightness and grace (although picking between the two is a matter of personal preference). Second, the rest of the program is different. You get not the Clarinet Quintet (for which the earlier recording would really be hard to beat) but the Trio in E flat major for clarinet, viola, and piano, K. 498 ("Kegelstatt"), an underrated and quite intricate work that looks forward to the rarefied chamber music world of Schubert. To...
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