Éric Le Sage, Gävle Symfoniorkester, François Leleux – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 KV 491 & 17 KV 453 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Éric Le Sage, Gävle Symfoniorkester, François Leleux – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 KV 491 & 17 KV 453 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:11 minutes | 1003 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Mozart’s piano concertos form a set that is not just exceptional but absolutely unique in the history of music: from No. 9 to No. 27, all are definitive masterpieces. According to H.C. Robbins Landon, an eminent specialist in the composer’s life and work, ‘It is above all their immense stylistic diversity that places Mozart’s piano concertos above and beyond those of his contemporaries’. What these scores also share is their position at a crossroads for strongly impacting influences: that of the symphony, encouraging Mozart to make lavish use of the orchestra; the wind bands of the Imperial court, shaping his enhanced role for the woodwinds; and the influence of the opera, whose styles he worked into these concertos, often treating the dialogue between piano and orchestra as if they were stage characters. In this new recording, Eric Le Sage is joined by the Gävle Symfoniorkester to perform the 17th and 24th concertos for piano and orchestra by the Salzburg composer.
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François Leleux – Prince Esterházy Concertos (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

François Leleux – Prince Esterházy Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:24 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Der französische Star-Oboist François Leleux ist berühmt für sein einzigartiges, facettenreiches Spiel. Sein Ton “berührt die Seele” (NDR Kultur), seine Technik ist makellos (Stern) und der Klang ist samtig und weich.

Anlässlich des 300. Geburtstages von Fürst Nikolaus I. Joseph Esterházy de Galantha präsentiert er mit dem Münchener Kammerorchester auf seinem neuen Album unterhaltsame und zugleich geistvolle Konzerte von Joseph Haydn und Johann Nepomuk Hummel, die beide als Kapellmeister das musikalische Leben am Hofe der mächtigen und musikliebenden Familie Esterházy zwischen 1761 und 1811 bestimmten.

Mit dem Solo-Flötisten der Berliner Philharmoniker, Emmanuel Pahud, hat François Leleux zwei reizvolle Konzerte Haydns, die ursprünglich für zwei drehleierartige Instrumente namens “Lira Organizzata” geschrieben worden sind, eingespielt. Darüber hinaus ein Oboenkonzert in C-Dur, welches lange Zeit Joseph Haydn zugeschrieben wurde, aber dessen wahrer Urheber bis heute weiterhin unbekannt ist. Die virtuosen Konzertvariationen op. 102 für Oboe und Orchester aus der Feder von Johann Nepomuk Hummel runden dieses besonders interessante Programm ab.

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François Leleux – Bienvenue en France (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

François Leleux – Bienvenue en France (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:46 minutes | 551 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The oboe has held a special place in France’s culture since the time of Louis XIV, and on Bienvenue en France the oboist François Leleux, partnered by pianist Emmanuel Strosser, performs works originating from the 20th century. The composers are Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Dutilleux, the lesser-known Pierné, Bozza and Sancan, and the contemporary Thierry Pécou. This music could not find a more eloquent advocate than Leleux, praised by The Scotsman as “a remarkably charismatic, flamboyant performer, matching immaculate technique with a dazzlingly vivid identification with his music.”

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