Preview ARTONOV at the Villa Carpentier
'Les Solistes du Concert de la Loge' with Julien Chauvin and the clarinettist Vincenzo Casale will take you on a journey through the Villa Carpentier in Ronse, a summer residence built by Victor Horta. References to musical gestures, be it to rhythm or to ornamentation, are woven in the architecture. In this program, we wanted to combine the contrast between shadow and light in the music of Joseph Haydn and the beautiful quintet for clarinet and strings by Johannes Brahms, with Victor Horta’s architecture, also anchored in his time and deeply inspired by the old masters.
"Music, as immaterial as it is, can impose its density and its spatiality. Of all the arts, it is the one that comes closest to architecture," said Renzo Piano.
Victor Horta's work illustrates this wonderful phrase from Renzo Piano. Its architecture permanently forges links with musical gestures, both in rhythm and in ornamentation. Originally, the young Horta, who studied the violin, wanted to become a musician, but he was fired from the Brussels Conservatory for ... lack of discipline. He therefore opted for architecture.
Clarinettist Vincenzo Casale will use in this recording an original German instrument by the maker Georg Ottensteiner from 1870. This instrument is the same model as the one clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld used.
Brahms heard Richard Mühlfeld in Meiningen in March of 1891 when the latter performed the Weber f minor concerto under the orchestra’s new conductor, Fritz Steinbach. Although he had a long association with the Meiningen Court and must have heard Mühfeld previously, Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that “nobody can play the clarinet more beautifully than Herr Mühlfeld.” Mühlfeld’s playing and personality had clearly captivated the composer, and a few months later both the Trio, op. 114 for clarinet, violoncello and piano, and the Quintet, op. 115 for clarinet and strings were completed at Bad Ischl, Brahms’ summer retreat. The composer appears to have been particularly affected by the sensitive, feminine side of Mühlfeld’s playing, referring to him as “meine Primadonna”, “Fräulein Klarinette” and the “nightingale of the orchestra”.
𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗦
Les Solistes du Concert de la Loge
- Julien Chauvin, first violin
- Karine Crocquenoy, second violin
- Pierre-Éric Nimylowycz, alto
- Grégoire Korniluk, cello
Vincenzo Casale, clarinet in A (by Georg Ottensteiner, Munich 1860)
𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠
Joseph Haydn: String quartet in G major, op. 76 n°1
Johannes Brahms: Quintet for clarinet and strings in b minor, op. 115
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵. 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘖𝘭𝘨𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.
