Monet Quintett

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

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

The colours of great masters
The name Monet conjures enchanted lily ponds, glowing cornfields, and vivid gardens. It is no coincidence that this young wind quintet named itself after the French Impressionist: here too, sonic colour-spaces take shape, where lines, layers and textures carry the real narrative.

A formation from the Bundesjugendorchester
The five musicians first met in the Bundesjugendorchester. In a symphony orchestra, the woodwinds sit close together and the horn section is only a few stands away - that kind of acoustic proximity has always been fertile ground for chamber music. The quintet formed in 2014. Today all five hold principal positions in major orchestras and have collected numerous international awards.

The programme
The evening spans from Anton Reicha - the "father of the wind quintet" - to György Ligeti, with two French voices in between: Maurice Ravel and Paul Taffanel.
As a young flautist in the Bonn court orchestra, Anton Reicha was a colleague of a viola-playing contemporary named Ludwig van Beethoven. He moved to Paris in 1808, and from 1817 onwards wrote his 24 wind quintets - the repertoire that effectively established the genre. The E-flat major quintet shows his characteristic blend of classical form and melodic invention.
György Ligeti's Six Bagatelles are arrangements of movements from his piano cycle Musica ricercata. At the premiere in 1956, the cultural authorities permitted only five of the six to be performed.