This lively program highlights the wind quintet as a centerpiece of chamber music, akin to the string quartet in tonal balance, depth, and versatility. Enhanced by piano and string collaborations, these ensembles create a variety of rich, colorful soundscapes. In addition to familiar faces, renowned German clarinetist Sebastian Manz makes a Music@Menlo debut, alongside pianist Sahun Sam Hong.

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Winds of Change

Menlo School Campus

From Bach to Block

Sarasota Opera House

A war injury forced the talented conductor André Caplet to give up his post as musical director at the Paris Opera. The musician, born in Le Havre in 1878, soon devoted himself solely to composition. As a student of Claude Debussy, he overcame the impressionism demanded by his teacher and moved closer to the avant-garde - for example, by composing for the modern concert harp. In 1919, Caplet wrote a "Fantastic Tale" for harp and string quartet, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death". The work musically captures the dark and ghostly atmosphere of the story and processes his own war expeiences.

4th Chamber Evening

Semperoper Dresden

Awartime injury forced the talented conductor André Caplet to give up his post as musical director at the Paris Opera. And so the musician, who was born in Le Havre in 1878, soon devoted himself entirely to composition. As a pupil of Claude Debussy, he abandoned his teacher’s Impressionism in favour of the avant-garde, for example in the music he composed for the modern concert harp. In 1919, Caplet wrote a »Fantastic Tale« for harp and string quartet inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story »The Masque of the Red Death«. The work wonderfully captures both the dark and ghostly atmosphere of the tale while reflecting on the composer’s own experiences of war.

4th Chamber Music Evening Concert

Orchestre Métropolitain musicians come together to perform a work written by one of their own, French horn player Simon Bourget. His sextet for piano and wind quintet will be followed by two major pieces for piano and winds from the repertoire: the charming and elegant sextet by Francis Poulenc and a sextet written by his lesser-known predecessor, Austrian Ludwig Thuille.

Winds of the Orchestre Métropolitain

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Two lush, 19th-century sextets—one for strings by Brahms and one for piano and winds by Thuille—feature on this program, which opens with Moszkowski’s spirited, early-20th-century Suite in G Minor for Two Violins and Piano.

Brahms & Thuille Sextets

Lensic Performing Arts Center

The three most familiar members of the chamber music family—winds, strings, and piano—join forces for a program rich in sonorities and cultural variety. Bohuslav Martinů, who inherited the mantle of Dvořák to become the most famous Czech composer of his day, left a huge catalog of chamber music. The Austrian Ludwig Thuille excelled in opera but his chamber music is now making a well-deserved comeback. And Germany’s Ludwig Spohr, one of his era’s greatest violinists, composed prolifically and skillfully for all combinations of chamber ensembles, the nonet is among his finest compositions.

Lincoln Center

This concert follows the previous day’s screening of Martin Goldsmith’s deeply moving film Winter Journey. It includes works by composers who were silenced as victims of the Holocaust, as well as works performed by the Jüdischer Kulturbund.

Focus Residency: Winter Journey In Concert

This year's matinees will be opened on Saturday, February 7th by Signe Buch Ladehoff, organist at Budolfi Church in Aalborg. She will present an exciting program with lesser-known works, namely Ludwig Thuille's Sonate in A minor, Gerald Finzi's Romance and last but not least Pamela Decker's Tango toccata on a theme by Melchior Vulpius.

Organ matinee

Church of Our Lady Copenhagen

4th Chamber Music Concert in the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera

Allow me to introduce you to George Onslow from France and Ludwig Thuille, born in Bolzano! Their works are rarely heard in the concert hall. However, Onslow's Quintet, Op. 81, which requires a perfectly balanced wind ensemble, is a worthwhile example of his style, entirely focused on beautiful sound and classical form. Thuille, in turn, influenced a large number of renowned students as a professor at the Royal Bavarian Music School in Munich. His Sextet, Op. 6, rightly puts the master himself in the spotlight.

Ludwig Thuille

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 7, 2026

Organ matinee · Københavns Domkirke

Feb 21, 2026

4th Chamber Music Concert in the Vienna State Opera · Wiener Philharmoniker

Jun 18, 2026

Rare guests · Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Past events

Jul 26, 2025

Winds of Change · Music@Menlo

Jun 6, 2025

From Bach to Block · Sarasota Orchestra

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