Joshua Bell, Irène Duval, Blythe Teh Engstroem, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, and Pierre Génisson perform Brahms and Schumann

The Tsinandali Festival is back for its sixth edition in 2024! Every year since 2019, the greatest performers, conductors, composers, and artists from all over the world have joined forces in the magnificent village of Tsinandali, in eastern Georgia, to promote music in this region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia — affording young musicians from the Caucasus the opportunity to study and perform with top-name artists, and offering audiences worldwide an unforgettable musical experience in an idyllic locale.

Chamber music supergroups abound in this Romantic program, beginning with Brahms's late Clarinet Trio in A Minor, a showcase here for clarinetist Pierre Génisson in which the music makes it sound, in the words of Brahms's close friend Eusebius Mandyczewski, "as if the instruments are in love with each other." A work by Brahms's friend and mentor Robert Schumann closes the program: the genre-creating, era-defining Piano Quintet, written in a five-day burst of inspiration during Schumann's remarkably productive 1842 and brought to you here by Joshua Bell and Irène Duval on violin, Blythe Teh Engstroem on viola, Steven Isserlis on cello, and Denk at the piano.

Photo © Shervin Lainez