Sergej Prokofjew
»Ouverture on Hebrew Themes« C minor for clarinet, two violins, viola, violoncello and piano (1919)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Quintet for violin, viola, violoncello, double bass and piano C minor (1903, rev. 1904/1905)
Arthur Bliss
Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (1932)
- Tino Plener clarinet
- Nathalie Streichardt violin
- Petra Hiemeyer violin
- Eva-Maria Wilms viola
- Daniela Bock violoncello
- Johannes Seidl bass
- Sunhee Kim-Nußbeck piano
“You’re never quite sure whether you are listening to old music or new, or to some alloy of the two,” commented an English music journalist about the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. With his piano quintet, rediscovered only quite recently, he links to the Elizabethan phantasy. His younger colleague Arthur Bliss wrote one of the most beautiful clarinet quintets in the tradition of Johannes Brahms. Sergej Prokofjew, finally, was inspired by klezmer music and fantasised about it – also with the clarinet at its centre.
