Clarinet quintets

Description

Raphaël Sévère and the Prazák Quartet come together around two masterpieces of chamber music for clarinet. The quintets by Brahms and Hindemith face each other. What separates Brahms' clarinet quintet from Hindemith's clarinet quintet is not just thirty years; it is not just two temperaments of artists, nor two different conceptions, nor two distinct aesthetics. What separates them is a world: the world of yesterday and the world of tomorrow. The world of established harmony and the world of instituted disorder. The Apollonian world of Brahms where nostalgia is radiant and the smile mixed with tears; the Dionysian world of Hindemith where breaks multiply, where reference points fade and reinvent themselves, disorienting the individual. What Musil called Cacania (like k-k: kaiserlich und königlich) has been succeeded by the unsettling universe of Kafka's "The Burrow."