Konzertmeister der Berliner Philharmoniker I

Boccherini and Michael Haydn paved the way for chamber writing for five performers, and Mozart established its credentials, notably with string quintet K 581, which is unique in the catalogue due to the presence of the clarinet, which for Mozart was the symbol par excellence of masonic brotherhood. Brahms’s quintet with piano, one of his favourites, is the fruit of a complex maturation process. It was initially written for the traditional ensemble of two violins, a viola and two cellos, but he was dissatisfied with it and reworked his score on the advice of Clara Schumann into a sonata for two pianos, before producing this definitive version for strings and piano. This interpretation is particularly delicate as it is all about the balance between the strings and keyboard, an exercise long since mastered by the Konzertmeister of the Berliner.

Coréalisation Piano**** / Théâtre des Champs-Elysées