EUropean Chamber Music Melting Pot
Ludwig van Beethoven Septet for string and wind instruments E - flat major Op. 20
(1770 – 1827)
- Adagio Allegro con brio
- Adagio cantabile
- Tempo di menuetto
- Tema con variazioni: Andante
- Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
- Andante noc moto alla marcia
Prague Clarinet Days Festival Ensemble
Leoš Čepický – violin, Jean – Marc Fessard (FR) – clarinet, Christian Kunert – bassoon, Kryštof Koska – french horn, Petr Holman – viola, Václav Bernášek – cello, Lukáš Holubík – double base
Leoš Janáček Mládí, sextet for wind quintet and bass clarinet
(1854 – 1928)
- Allegro
- Andante sostenuto
- Vivace
- Allegro animato
Prague Clarinet Days Festival Wind Quintet, Stephan Vermeersch – bass clarinet (BE)
The Prague Clarinet Days project continues to present seemingly disparate and contrasting works (2021 Rudolfinum - MOZART/AHO - Czech premiere), which nevertheless belong together in terms of their compositional quality and mastery of different eras. Beethoven's Septet from the turn of the nineteenth century (1800), which the composer himself arranged for trio and piano due to its immense popularity, as well as Leoš Janáček's Youth, which the composer himself described as "such memories from my youth" in a letter to Kamila Stösslová, the premiere of which, paradoxically, was successful due to technical problems of the Brno clarinetist only for the second time in Prague, have become iconic repertoire not only for wind instruments. Performed by ensembles composed exclusively for this occasion of great Czech performers, including students and graduates of HAMU in Prague and foreign festival guests from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, concert-goers are in for a unique listening experience. The diverse nationality and age composition of the concert performers reflects the diversity of the European Union's cultural scene and the AMU in Prague is thus part of the celebration of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.