While Mozart and Jacob’s respective clarinet quintets are separated by over a century, there is an obvious resonance in their shared spirit. Jacob favoured the conciseness and clarity of form so demonstrated by Mozart’s Quintet, building on these foundations as he carved out his own distinctly English style. In dedication to his friend and muse Anton Stadler, Mozart placed the clarinet – an instrument in the early stages of its modern developments – centre stage. Jacob too found inspiration in British clarinettist, Frederick Thurston. A third piece in this programme, a completion of the Allegro of a second unfinished Mozart clarinet quintet by Duncan Druce, offers the listener a rare imagining of what might have been another defining work of the clarinet repertoire.