Konzermeister of the Berlin Philharmonic with Edgar Moreau and Anna Vinnitskaya

First Mozart – Brahms evening by the eminent Konzertmeiser der Berliner Philharmoniker and two young soloists with strong personalities: Edgar Moreau and Anna Vinniskaya

Boccherini and Michael Haydn had opened the way for five-part chamber music, and Mozart would give it its letters of nobility, notably with the string quintet K. 581, which holds a special place in his catalogue, due to the presence of the clarinet, an instrument that would become the ultimate symbol of Masonic fraternity for Mozart.
As for Brahms's piano quintet, one of its composer's favorites, it had a complex maturation. First written for the traditional ensemble of two violins, a viola, and two cellos, which he was not entirely satisfied with, he revised his score on the advice of Clara Schumann into a sonata for two pianos before establishing this definitive version for strings and piano. His interpretation is particularly delicate because it is a question of balance between the strings and the keyboard, an exercise in which the Berliner Konzertmeisters have long been masters.