Winds & Piano
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Label: Warner
Cat No: 2564623185
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 3rd November 2014
Contents
Works
Quintet for piano and wind, op.16Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano
Sextet in C minor for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, op.40
Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, K452
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, FP100
Quintet in B flat major for piano and wind
Divertissement for wind quintet and piano, op.6
Sextet in B flat major, op.6
Artists
Eric Le Sage (piano)Les Vents Francais
Works
Quintet for piano and wind, op.16Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano
Sextet in C minor for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, op.40
Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, K452
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, FP100
Quintet in B flat major for piano and wind
Divertissement for wind quintet and piano, op.6
Sextet in B flat major, op.6
Artists
Eric Le Sage (piano)Les Vents Francais
About
Les Vents Français have been described as “the wind-quintet equivalent of a supergroup”. The ensemble’s five members – Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Francois Leleux, Gilbert Audin and Radovan Vlatković, all world-renowned soloists in their own right – are joined by pianist Eric Le Sage for a fascinating 3-CD programme of chamber music that spans three centuries and the French, Austro-German and Russian repertoires.
Despite the group’s name, only three of its members are in fact French. Emmanuel Pahud – considered the finest flute-player in the world, and a member of the Berlin Philharmonic as well as a celebrated soloist – was born in Switzerland, while the horn-player Radovan Vlatković is from Croatia. Officially flying the tricolore are clarinettist Paul Meyer, oboist Francois Leleux and bassoonist Gilbert Audin.
Together, the five musicians offer playing that, in the words of International Record Review, is “practically unbeatable” and which prompted this response from The Times, writing of their previous release: “If you buy just one wind-quintet recording in your life, buy this fabulous double album. Les Vents Français are so precise, yet full of fun, subtleties and flights of virtuosity as they tackle 19th- and 20th-century classics ... Impertinent, insouciant, irresistible”.
This new 3-CD collection offers a programme that ranges more widely, spanning Classicism, Romanticism and Modernism, and France, Austro-Germany and Russia. Les Vents Français team up with the French pianist Eric Le Sage – who has been praised by BBC Music Magazine for “pianism and musicianship of a rare order” – for richly varied repertoire: quintets/sextets by Mozart, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Poulenc, Roussel and three lesser-known composers – André Caplet (1878-1925), best known for his orchestrations of piano works by his friend Debussy, Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), celebrated in her lifetime as a Paris-based composer, pianist, teacher and scholar, and the Austrian Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907), who lived in Munich, was friendly with Richard Strauss and who favoured chamber music and opera.
This fascinating anthology of music for wind ensemble and piano will once again give listeners a chance to appreciate the special talents of Les Vents Français. In the words of BBC Music Magazine: “Individually, they play with attractive timbre and immaculate intonation and articulation. Collectively, they blend their colours with great finesse, within dynamics ranging from cushioned pianissimo to bright fortissimo.”
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