YAMEN SAADI / KIAN SOLTANI / NOBUYUKI TSUJII...
Raykhelson, Brahms
The exploration of music by the Russian-born American composer Igor Raykhelson continues following the success of his Quartet in 2025. This year, top chamber musicians come together to present the Piano Quintet. In the second half, Brahms’s flamboyant Piano Quartet No. 1 will be performed, featuring the extraordinary Nobuyuki Tsujii at the piano.
Programme
IGOR RAYKHELSON (1961-)
Piano Quintet with Strings No. 2 in E-flat minor
(Quentin, Bouchkov, So, Szücs, Cheng)
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Piano Quartet with Strings No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
(Tsujii, Saadi, Szücs, Soltani)
Concert without intermission
Artist(s)
- Marc Bouchkov violin
- Yamen Saadi violin
- Paloma So violin
- Máté Szücs viola
- Bryan Cheng cello
- Kian Soltani cello
- Julien Quentin piano
- Nobuyuki Tsujii piano
Chamber music supergroup perform Brahms: Piano Quartet Op.25 IV. Rondo alla zingarese
Last year, Marc Bouchkov, Máté Szücs, Bryan Cheng and Julien Quentin enjoyed great success at the Verbier Festival in Igor Raykhelson’s Quartet, a composer with a singular profile. Having studied classical piano as well as jazz at the Leningrad Conservatory, he later emigrated to the United States, where his music has been championed by performers of the calibre of Yuri Bashmet. Like Gershwin in his day, Raykhelson’s music—playful and sophisticated—interweaves the multiplicity of his influences, between jazz and the great classical repertoire, the Old and New Worlds.
Brahms’s flamboyant First Piano Quartet combines stormy Romanticism with an almost symphonic musical architecture. The second movement, both tender and mischievous, is based on the “Clara motif”, so dear to Schumann. Meanwhile, its exuberant, Gypsy-inspired Finale remains to this day one of the composer’s most famous pages.
