Les Vents Français: French Music for Winds & 20th Century Wind Quintets

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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... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: 2564634845
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

27th January 2014
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2014

Ibert: Pièces brèves (3) for wind quintet

Work length6:50

$3.90

$5.10

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Tullio Serafin

I. Allegro

Track length2:17

$1.30

$1.70

II. Andante

Track length1:45

$1.30

$1.70

III. Assez lent - Allegro Scherzando

Track length2:48

$1.30

$1.70

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Work length14:53

$5.20

$6.80

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble)
Members of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Herbert von Karajan, Alceo Galliera, Georges Prêtre

I. Prélude

Track length3:17

$1.30

$1.70

II. Fugue

Track length3:59

$1.30

$1.70

III. Menuet

Track length4:25

$1.30

$1.70

IV. Rigaudon

Track length3:12

$1.30

$1.70

Jolivet: Sonatine pour hautbois et bassoon

Work length8:13

$3.90

$5.10

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano), Antonio Pappano (lead vocals), Nadine Sautereau (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Thomas Hampson (bass-baritone)
Choeurs René Duclos, Jean Laforge, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Georges Prêtre

I. Ouverture

Track length2:10

$1.30

$1.70

II. Récitatif

Track length2:56

$1.30

$1.70

III. Ostinato

Track length3:07

$1.30

$1.70

Milhaud: La Cheminée du roi René, Op 205

Work length13:13

$9.10

$11.90

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Antonio Pappano (lead vocals), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Thomas Hampson (bass-baritone)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

I. Cortège

Track length2:05

$1.30

$1.70

II. Aubade

Track length1:57

$1.30

$1.70

III. Jongleurs

Track length1:16

$1.30

$1.70

IV. La Maousinglade

Track length2:32

$1.30

$1.70

V. Joutes sur l'Arc

Track length0:56

$1.30

$1.70

VI. Chasse à Valabre

Track length1:44

$1.30

$1.70

VII. Madrigal-Nocturne

Track length2:43

$1.30

$1.70

Taffanel: Wind Quintet

Work length23:46

$3.90

$5.10

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Martha Argerich (piano)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit

I. Allegro con moto

Track length9:46

$1.30

$1.70

II. Andante

Track length6:01

$1.30

$1.70

III. Vivace

Track length7:59

$1.30

$1.70

Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for wind quintet

Work length12:20

$7.80

$10.20

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Frank Braley (second vocals), Frank Braley (piano), Manoug Parikian (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length1:14

$1.30

$1.70

II. Rubato lamentoso

Track length3:25

$1.30

$1.70

III. Allegro grazioso

Track length2:28

$1.30

$1.70

IV. Presto ruvido

Track length1:04

$1.30

$1.70

V. Adagio mesto (Béla Bartók in memoriam)

Track length2:33

$1.30

$1.70

VI. Molto vivace (Capriccioso)

Track length1:36

$1.30

$1.70

Zemlinsky: Humoreske (Rondo). Schulstück für Bläserquintett

Work length4:24

$1.30

$1.70

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Manoug Parikian (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31

Work length11:43

Album only

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Manoug Parikian (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Veress: Sonatina for Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon

Work length5:45

$2.60

$3.40

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Manoug Parikian (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra

I. Allegro giocoso

Track length2:22

$1.30

$1.70

II. Andante - Allegretto - Tempo I

Track length3:23

$1.30

$1.70

Veress: Sonatina for Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon III. Grave - Allegrissimo

Work length3:19

$1.30

$1.70

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Manoug Parikian (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik for wind quintet, Op. 24 No. 2

Work length13:25

$6.50

$8.50

Les Vents Français (wind ensemble), Manoug Parikian (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra

I. Lustig. Mäßig schnelle Viertel

Track length3:06

$1.30

$1.70

II. Walzer. Durchweg sehr leise

Track length1:56

$1.30

$1.70

III. Ruhig und einfach. Achtel

Track length4:30

$1.30

$1.70

IV. Schnelle Viertel

Track length0:50

$1.30

$1.70

V. Sehr lebhaft

Track length3:03

$1.30

$1.70

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Recording of the Week, 20th-Century Wind Quintets from Les Vents Français

27th January 2014

Emmanuel Pahud and company are on ‘beautifully burnished’ form in a 2-CD album of music by Paul Taffanel, Ligeti, Milhaud, Ibert, Ravel, Jolivet, Zemlinsky and more.

A double CD of wind quintets from Warner Classics exclusive artist, Emmanuel Pahud, and his colleagues in Les Vents Français (Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Francois Leleux, Gilbert Audin, Radovan Vlatkovic). Les Vents Francais celebrate French wind music at its elegant, witty best. Pahud is greatly in demand as a chamber musician and in this context has collaborated with most of the world's top soloists. As far as Pahud is concerned, ‘it’s like having two musical lives, but one musical world.’ Previously release in Japan the album won a Record Academy Award for Chamber Music.

Reviews

May 2014

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, the latter enhanced by an upfront recording.

May 2014

Variety of style is a winning suit of this set, played throughout with terrific aplomb.

May 2014

Wind players, professional or amateur, will need no second invitation to sample this new quintet collection...Non-wind-playing listeners keen to explore a hitherto unknown repertoire could also do far worse than start here...the playing on this new Warner is practically unbeatable.

27th January 2014

Individual players come out of the texture where necessary, but all five are perfectly able to blend and sound as one unit...there’s much to enjoy here. I don’t think you could ask for five more accomplished players; every single one of them is at the top of his game, and for me at least there were several pleasing discoveries in terms of new repertoire. Highly entertaining!

23rd January 2014

Les Vents Français is the wind-quintet equivalent of a supergroup. All its members...are international soloists in their own right, and their performances, as you'd expect, have a marvellous fluency and dazzling range of colour, even if there are moments when things get too indulgent.

25th January 2014

this set offers a fascinating portrait of inter-war musical manners in the last century.

26th January 2014

The joyous exuberance of Jacques Ibert's Trois pièces brèves makes a delicious opening to this double CD, played by five top French woodwind players with charming Gallic insouciance. There's so much to enjoy here.

25th January 2014

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.

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