Conundrum Wind Quintet to showcase early 20th century music for wind instruments

The Conundrum Wind Quintet, which performed in Salida for the first time last year, returns Monday, July 19 to play classical music of Anton Reicha, Francis Poulenc, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Carl Nielsen.

This second concert in the Salida Aspen series, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. at John Held Auditorium, Salida High School, 10th and D Streets.

Reicha’s Woodwind Quintet in E-flat major, op. 88, no. 2 is one of eight compositions he wrote for wind ensemble. The Czech composer influenced the music of such classic composers as Franz Liszt and Cesar Franck whom he taught.

The second piece on the program, Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet, is one of Francis Poulenc’s most popular works with touches of jazz and expressive solos for each of the instruments.

Sofia Gubaidulina, born in 1931 and indoctrinated in the Russian Orthodox Church, writes modernistic music. Her Allegro Rustico for flute and piano and Sounds of the Forest are based on folk themes and sounds of nature.

Wind Quintet, Op. 43, considered one of the best-known works of Danish composer Carl Nielsen, brings out the beauty in the sounds of the different wind instruments. Nielsen’s music is often played today by two fairly young conductors: Gustavo Dudamel of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert of the New York Philharmonic.

Members of the Conundrum Wind Quintet serve on the faculty and as performers at the Aspen Music Festival and School. They occupy first chairs in bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe and horn at, respectively, Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony.

The quintet will be joined by Greek pianist and composer Dimitri Papadimitriou.

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