Alinde Quintet

A French evening for wind quintet with works by Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel and Henri Tomasi

When the Bohemian composer Anton Reicha moved to Paris in 1808, he made the acquaintance of five outstanding musicians there, which prompted him to compose a series of quintets for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. This laid the foundations for a genre that enjoyed great popularity throughout the rest of the 19th and 20th centuries. Taking Reicha as their starting point, the musicians of the Czech Alinde Quintet, winners of the ARD Competition 2024, take us into the world of French chamber music for wind quintet: from Darius Milhaud's colorful suite La Cheminée du roi René, to an arrangement of Maurice Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, to wild dances by Henri Tomasi.