Joined by a group of acclaimed colleagues, violinist Alina Ibragimova, hornist Ben Goldscheider, and clarinetist Matthew Hunt perform a selection of color ful chamber music works featuring different combina tions of instruments. In addition to Mozart’s Horn Quintet and Bartók’s Contrasts, the program includes rarely heard sextets by Krzysztof Penderecki and Hungarian composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi.
The genesis of Pierre Boulez’s only string quartet Livre pour quatuor—begun by the composer in the late 1940s and left unfinished at the time of his death—resembles a veritable neverending story. In 2018, Philippe Manoury, one of today’s leading French composers and a close artistic associate of Boulez, completed the fragment of the fourth movement based on the extant sketches. The West-Eastern Divan Ensemble performs Manoury’s version, which had its world premiere at the Pierre Boulez Saal, juxtaposing it with Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet and Schubert’s late String Quintet.
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