THE INTERNATIONAL
STRING QUARTET:
Andre Mangeot (violin); Walter Price (violin) ; Eric Bray (viola); Jack
; Shinebourne (violoncello)
FREDERICK THURSTON (clarinet)
V. C. CLINTON BADDELEY
(reader)
FREDERICK THURSTON AND QUARTET
This work has always been known as the Stadlerquintet since it was composed by Mozart for his friend and crony, Anton Stadler , a celebrated clarinet player. The quintet ranks very high in Mozart's chamber music, as high, some musicians think, as the two quintets for strings composed in the last two years of Mozart's life, when his powers were at their most mature.
Of the four movements, the second is probably the most familiar, from the fact of its many arrangements for other instruments ; for, though a slow movement, actually it is little more than an accompaniment and very beautiful clarinet solo.