André Caplet - Quintet for piano and winds - II. Adagio

André Caplet (1878-1923)
Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano (1898)

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Scherzo. Trés vif
IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco

Aura Ensemble

Primarily known as Debussy's musical assistant who orchestrated Children's Corner and other works, Caplet was a highly imaginative and skilled composer in his own right. This is a student work showing remarkable craftsmanship and imagination, and an individual voice within a style that, at the time, amalgamated aspects of the music of Massenet, Franck, and Debussy. Its first movement was performed separately in 1899, and the whole thing in March 1900. It won the Prize of the French Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers in 1900, and appears to have been played several times before the score was lost. It was rediscovered again in 1920, entrusted to an oboist who participated in a performance, lost again, and rediscovered in 1937 or 1938 (a dozen years after the composer's death). It is in a clear, classical four-movement structure, with rich, assured polyphonic writing, an exceptional (and as yet little-known) contribution to the repertoire of piano/wind quintets. ~ All Music Guide

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• clarinet
• bassoon
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[ngolomirambu]

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