extremely delighted and grateful for being part of such an interesting and special chamber music project!✨
Working on the "diamond" of chamber music ever written for clarinet - Brahms's clarinet Quintet op.115 - from historical perspective, which means not only using instruments of the time but also tying to recreate in details the performing way. Listening to the recordings from the beginning of the 20th century, played by the legendary clarinetist of the past Charles Draper (1869-1952), who, as a young clarinetist heard the first performance of the Quintet in England played by the musicians it was written for - Richard Mühlfeld and the Joachim Quartet, makes me think how beautiful and different that musical language is! How exciting, how alive and in the same time how contrary it sounds comparing to what one used to nowadays. The process of understanding this language by listening again and again, trying out tempo rubato, portamenti, playing not together 😉 etc. until it became part of my identity is really a unique experience!
Thank you #animaeternabrugge
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