Description
Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for wind quintet were arranged by the composer from his works for solo piano, and humorously evoke the sound-world of folk music in his native Hungary. Over the past 75 years they have grown to be a popular mainstay of the wind quintet repertoire. The Eastern European flavour of this programme continues with music by Janácek before culminating in Mendelssohn’s rhapsodic second piano trio, which he wrote in 1845 and dedicated to Louis Spohr. Listen out for his quotation of the Lutheran chorale ‘Vor deinen Thron’ (Old Hundredth) in the finale.