The Quartet formed in 1985 and receives accolades wherever they perfom: "unassailable technique and intonation . . an astonishingly calibrated range of voicings and dynamics...[The Washington Post]

Jorg Widmann is the clarinetist for the Mozart Quintet.

It's a cryptic headline, to be sure, explained as music by Mozart (first name Wolfgang) and music by Korngold, (middle name Wolfgang), with music by non-Wolfgang-named Dowland, Bartok and Poulenc.

Dame Mitsuko has been playing and conducting the Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard for much of her life, most recently with the Cleveland Orchestra in recent recordings and here with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Thirty years separate the two featured works on tonight's "Evening Concert": the "Clarinet Quintet" is a late work by Brahms, published 1891, the "Piano Quartet No.2", published 1861.