Alinde Quintet

When the Bohemian composer Anton Reicha moved to Paris in 1808, he became acquainted with five outstanding musicians, which inspired him to compose a series of quintets for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. This laid the foundation for a genre that enjoyed great popularity throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Drawing from Reicha, the musicians of the Czech Alinde Quintet, winners of the ARD Competition 2024, take us into the world of French chamber music for wind quintet: from Darius Milhaud's colorful suite La Cheminée du roi René, to an arrangement of Maurice Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, and wild dances by Henri Tomasi.

Program
Anton Reicha // 1770–1836
Wind Quintet in F major op. 100, No. 1 // 1824
Darius Milhaud // 1892–1974
La Cheminée du roi René. Suite op. 205 // 1939
// Intermission //
Maurice Ravel // 1875–1937
Le tombeau de Couperin M. 68a // 1914–17, 1919
[Arrangement for wind quintet by Mason Jones]
Henri Tomasi // 1901–1971
Cinq danses profanes et sacrées // 1959

Instrumentation
Alinde Quintet
Anna Talácková | Flute
Barbora Trnčíková | Oboe
David Šimeček | Clarinet
Kryštof Koska | Horn
Petr Sedlák | Bassoon