When Johannes Brahms met clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld in 1890, he was completely captivated by his playing. Perhaps Brahms believed this encounter to be an "incarnation of the kind of dark, soulful voice that had always seduced him.’" The clarinet quintet, written in 1891, is one of Brahms’s most autumnal and melancholic late opuses and is strikingly different to his other late chamber music works. It is a contemplation of lost love and sweetness brought by a new one; the epitome of life's bittersweetness. Besides Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, the quintet will also perform music by other composers who share Brahms’s understanding of love, beauty and time.
Programme
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Clarinet Quintet
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Participants
- Gustav Rørmark and Martha-Pil Neumer (violin)
- Andreas Grimstad (viola)
- Sophie Kauer (cello)
- Madara Eleonora Mezale (clarinet)