Windspiel Dandelion Quintett

• György Ligeti (1923 - 2006): Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett:
• 1 Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett: Allegro con spirito 01:12
• 2 Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett: Rubato. Lamentoso 02:59
• 3 Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett: Allegro grazioso 02:22
• 4 Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett: Presto ruvido 00:57
• 5 Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett: Adagio. Mesto 02:20
• 6 Ligeti: Molto vivace, capriccioso 01:24
• Simon Popp (b. 1990):
• 7 Popp: Odds in Favor 04:32
• Ralph Heidel (b. 1993):
• 8 Heidel: I promise 06:15
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981):
• 9 Barber: Op. 31: Summer Music 11:18
• Henrik Ajax (b. 1980):
• 10 Ajax: Hapax Legomenon 13:10
• Total Runtime 46:29

Info for Windspiel

The dandelion is a well-known plant that adorns meadows and fields and goes through several stages of development until finally, thanks to the power of the wind, the ripe seeds are blown across the expanse of the landscape. The Dandelion Quintet has named itself after this flower and figuratively embodies its characteristics. The woodwind quintet combines virtuosity and joy of playing with natural ease to create colourful soundscapes.

The works on their debut album "Windspiel" are representative of the formation's repertoire: classics of contemporary music - represented here by György Ligeti and Samuel Barber - meet experimental composers of the present, namely Simon Popp, Ralph Heidel and Henrik Ajax. Past meets present in the certainty that we will be hearing a lot more from the Dandelion Quintet in the future.

Dandelion Quintet

Dandelion Quintet
“Dandelion” means something like dandelion or dandelion. In search of natural lightness, the ensemble, founded in Munich in 2018, embodies virtuosity and joy of playing in the context of a colorful variety of sounds that can only be heard in a woodwind quintet in the field of chamber music.

The ensemble studies at the HfMT Munich in Prof. Reto Bieri's chamber music class and regularly works with other greats of the German chamber music scene such as Dirk Mommertz, Andrea Lieberknecht and Konstantia Gourzi.

The Dandelion Quintet has performed at home and abroad, including in Moscow, Copenhagen and Munich. They are chamber music partners of renowned artists such as Margarita Höhenrieder, with whom they performed in the Polling Library Hall. The Dandelion Quintet is first prize winner at the Ars Ventus BIMC 2019 international competition for woodwind quintet, which it won with the highest number of points awarded.

The five young musicians are co-organizers and curators of the Feet become Ears concert series, which was launched in Munich in 2022.

This album contains no booklet.