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 Hortaโs 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 Mรผhlfeld used.
Brahms heard Richard Mรผhlfeld in Meiningen in March of 1891 when the latter performed the Weber f minor concerto under the orchestraโs new conductor, Fritz Steinbach. Although he had a long association with the Meiningen Court and must have heard Mรผhfeld previously, Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that โnobody can play the clarinet more beautifully than Herr Mรผhlfeld.โ Mรผhlfeldโs 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, Brahmsโ summer retreat. The composer appears to have been particularly affected by the sensitive, feminine side of Mรผhlfeldโs playing, referring to him as โmeine Primadonnaโ, โFrรคulein Klarinetteโ and the โnightingale of the orchestraโ.
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Les Solistes du Concert de la Loge
- Julien Chauvin, first violin
- Karine Crocquenoy, second violin
- Pierre-รric Nimylowycz, alto
- Grรฉgoire Korniluk, cello
Vincenzo Casale, clarinet in A (by Georg Ottensteiner, Munich 1860)
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Joseph Haydn: String quartet in G major, op. 76 nยฐ1
Johannes Brahms: Quintet for clarinet and strings in b minor, op. 115
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
