Mozart: Ecstasy & Abyss / Fröst, Debargue, Swedish Chamber Orchestra

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Double-album project that represents the dualities in Mozart's music and life - light versus shade, human verses divine, life versus death, playful versus profound, disaster versus triumph. The 1st album focuses on the repertoire of a concert Mozart gave in Leipzig in May 1789 in a very difficult period in his life. The 2nd enters around a final trip to his beloved Prague (Aug. 1791) where his opera, Clemenza di Tito, was premiered and he conceived his Clarinet Concerto, having presented his Prague Symphony there some years earlier.

This is Martin Frost's 3rd recording of this work and is performed here on Mozart's favorite instrument, the Basset Clarinet. This also includes the first recordings of Frost conducting.

“Every performance of a work is its own statement, contains its own truth…. This release marks exactly 20 years, almost a generation, since my first recording of the work, and exactly 10 years since my second. The world has changed immeasurably in that time. I have changed, both as an artist and as a person. And we change as listeners.” - Martin Frost



Product Description:


  • Release Date: March 31, 2023


  • Catalog Number: 19658772252


  • UPC: 196587722524


  • Label: Sony Music Entertainment


  • Number of Discs: 2


  • Period: Classical


  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Conductor: Martin Frost


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Orchestra


  • Performer: Martin Frost, Lucas Debargue, Elin Rombo, Ann Hallenberg