BRAHMS, QUINTETTES

Renaud Capuçon has invited a group of exceptional artists for an evening with Brahms. A regular visitor to Aix at Easter, the violist Adrien La Marca – a native of the city - will, this evening, place his stand between Edgar Moreau , one of the most extraordinary cellists of his generation, and the violinists Guillaume Chilemme and Raphaëlle Moreau.

Three maestros round off this top-flight line-up: the violist Gérard Caussé , the cellist Gautier Capuçon and the pianist Nicholas Angelich , the latter to play the Quintet for piano and strings , which is doubtless the composer's most famous piece of chamber music.

The two String Quintets, express a more profound feeling, and these more mature works still resonate with the influence of popular tzigane music that tends to run through a number of opus by Brahms.