About This Song
About "Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: I. Allegro" by Boston Symphony Chamber Players
The Clarinet Quintet's opening Allegro is Mozart at his most genial and expansive. The clarinet sings a melody of disarming simplicity, then hands it to strings that embroider and echo. Boston Symphony Chamber Players find the music's balance of sociability and private melancholy.