Monet Quintett

Daniela Koch, flute
Johanna Stier, oboe
Nemorino Scheliga, clarinet
Theo Plath, bassoon
Marc Gruber, horn

Programme
György Ligeti (1923-2006): Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Anton Reicha (1770-1836): Wind Quintet in E-flat Major op. 88/2
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Mason Jones)
Paul Taffanel (1844-1908): Quintette à vent en sol mineur

Monet Quintett takes its name from the French Impressionist painter - no coincidence. In its music too, sonic spaces emerge where lines, layers, and textures become the true narrative. The five musicians met in the Bundesjugendorchester and came together in 2014. Today all members hold solo positions in major orchestras and have received multiple international awards.

The programme spans from Anton Reicha to György Ligeti, complemented by two French voices. Reicha, a young flutist and colleague of the same-aged Beethoven in the Bonn court chapel, moved to Paris in 1808 and from 1817 wrote his 24 wind quintets - the repertoire that first established the genre. Ligeti's Six Bagatelles rework movements from the piano cycle Musica ricercata; at the 1956 premiere, censorship allowed only five of the six movements, the most dissonant was excluded. Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin was composed between 1914 and 1917: each of the six movements is dedicated to a friend who fell in the First World War, with François Couperin "le Grand" as the stylistic reference. The quintet version comes from longtime Philadelphia solo hornist Mason Jones and stays close to Ravel's 1919 orchestral version. The programme concludes with Paul Taffanel's Quintette à vent en sol mineur (1876), in which the founder of the modern French flute school leads the woodwinds as equal solo instruments.

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