Mozart’s fellow freemason, the clarinettist Anton Stadler, inspired the composer to create a series of late masterworks. The Clarinet Quintet in A K581 evokes a delightful celebration of lyrical melody throughout its four movements.

Martin Fröst and the Apollon Musagète Quartet also explore another enduring landmark of the chamber music repertoire, Brahms’s elegiac Clarinet Quintet of 1891.