Les Vents Français: Winds & Piano

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The playing sparkles. None of these pieces will challenge the intellect, but each in turn tickles the senses. — Financial Times, 3rd January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2014
Catalogue No: 2564623185
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

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Poulenc: Sextet for piano and wind quintet, Op. 100

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Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Eric Le Sage (piano)

I. Allegro vivace

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II. Divertissement - Andantino

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III. Finale - Prestissimo

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Farrenc: Sextet, Op. 40 in C minor for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn & Bassoon

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Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Eric Le Sage (piano)

I. Allegro

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II. Andante sostenuto

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III. Allegro vivace

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Roussel: Divertissement for Piano & Winds, Op. 6

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Caplet: Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 8

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Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Eric Le Sage (piano)

I. Allegro brillamente

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II. Adagio

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III. Scherzo

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IV. Finale - Allegro con fuoco

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Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

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Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Eric Le Sage (piano)

I. Largo - Allegro moderato

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II. Larghetto

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III. Allegretto

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Beethoven: Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, Op.16

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Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Eric Le Sage (piano)

I. Allegro, ma non troppo

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II. Andante cantabile

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III. Rondo - Allegro, ma non troppo

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Thuille: Sextet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major, Op. 6

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Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Eric Le Sage (piano)

I. Allegro moderato

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II. Larghetto

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III. Gavotte - Andante quasi allegretto

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IV. Finale - Vivace

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Rimsky Korsakov: Quintet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major

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Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Eric Le Sage (piano)

I. Allegro con brio

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II. Andante - Fughetta - Andante

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III. Rondo - Allegretto

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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.”

Reviews

3rd January 2015

The playing sparkles. None of these pieces will challenge the intellect, but each in turn tickles the senses.

March 2015

This is a positive dream team, who not only capture the music's individual spirit but also clearly enjoy doing so...the set as a whole is a compelling compendium of creative variety unified by matchless musicianship.

25th January 2015

[The ensemble] bring spirit, clear perspective and a good deal of wit and charm to a wide spectrum of music both familiar and rather less so...The musical mix here is fascinating and refreshing, the performances exuding the sense of pleasure that Les Vent Français derive from playing it.

23rd November 2014

These are top-notch performances of not always top-notch music. The piano quintets of Mozart and Beethoven need no special pleading, and this international ensemble are at their best in the dreamy opening and the finale’s cadenza of the Mozart.

3rd January 2015

Three CDs worth of Gallic exuberance to blow away those January blues.

Les Vents Français: Winds & Piano

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