Arioso

In the organizer's words:

Celebratory concert 50 years of chamber concerts / Paul Hindemith: Clarinet Quintet op. 30 / Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor op. 25

50 years of chamber concerts in Heidelberg: Since 1975, members of the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra have enriched the city's musical life with chamber concerts - initially as "Rathauskonzerte", later in the Palais Prinz Carl and today in the Old Hall of the theater and orchestra. The series continues to showcase the orchestra's artistic diversity beyond the big stage. To mark its 50th anniversary, a festive weekend invites you back to these historic venues.

indemith in search of a new classicism in melody, counterpoint and form: his Clarinet Quintet was premiered in Salzburg on August 7, 1923. Three fast movements are followed by two slow ones: a canonical movement, marked "Ruhig" in three-part song form, and the expressive Arioso. In the middle is the jocular Ländler. The opening and closing movements are almost identical and yet different: Hindemith uses the opening movement in crab for the finale, which means he simply runs it backwards.

Johannes Brahms planned three piano quartets from 1855 onwards, two of which were completed in 1861. The first is the most popular and best known, not least because of its brilliant final movement, a Rondo alla Zingarese. Brahms included it on the program in Vienna in 1862 at his first public appearance as a pianist and composer.