Les Vents Francais with Eric Le Sage – Winds & Piano (2014) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Les Vents Francais with Eric Le Sage – Winds & Piano (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:59:29 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Classical
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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. The French timbre characterised by Franois Leleux’s plangent oboe sounds well suited to Poulenc’s racy sextet and the fine one-movement Divertissement by Roussel. More dispensable are Louise Farrenc’s amiable sextet, a pioneering work of 1852, and Andr Caplet’s oddly irritating quintet of 1899. The third disc has a sextet by Strauss’s friend Ludwig Thuille, boldly symphonic in scope, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s extremely enjoyable, bubbly quintet. But are eight piano-and-wind works in succession just too much of a good thing?

Tracklist:

1.Sextet for Piano & Winds, Op. 100: I. Allegro vivace – 7:21
2.Sextet for Piano & Winds, Op. 100: II. Divertissement – Andantino – 4:12
3.Sextet for Piano & Winds, Op. 100: III. Finale – Prestissimo – 5:27
4.Sextet for Piano & Winds in C Minor, Op. 40: I. Allegro – 11:32
5.Sextet for Piano & Winds in C Minor, Op. 40: II. Andante sostenuto – 5:33
6.Sextet for Piano & Winds in C Minor, Op. 40: III. Allegro vivace – 6:32
7.Divertissement for Piano & Winds, Op. 6 – 6:39
8.Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 8: I. Allegro brillamente – 8:01
9.Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 8: II. Adagio – 6:19
10.Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 8: III. Scherzo – 4:01
11.Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 8: IV. Finale – Allegro con fuoco – 7:29
12.Quintet for Piano & Winds in E-Flat Major, K. 452: I. Largo – Allegro moderato – 10:19
13.Quintet for Piano & Winds in E-Flat Major, K. 452: II. Larghetto – 8:29
14.Quintet for Piano & Winds in E-Flat Major, K. 452: III. Allegretto – 5:50
15.Quintet for Piano & Winds in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: I. Allegro, ma non troppo – 13:45
16.Quintet for Piano & Winds in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: II. Andante cantabile – 7:25
17.Quintet for Piano & Winds in E-Flat Major, Op. 16: III. Rondo – Allegro, ma non troppo – 5:43
18.Sextet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major, Op. 6: I. Allegro moderato – 10:20
19.Sextet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major, Op. 6: II. Larghetto – 6:59
20.Sextet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major, Op. 6: III. Gavotte – Andante quasi allegretto – 3:25
21.Sextet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major, Op. 6: IV. Finale – Vivace – 5:48
22.Quintet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro con brio – 10:38
23.Quintet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major: II. Andante – Fughetta – Andante – 9:44
24.Quintet for Piano & Winds in B-Flat Major: III. Rondo – Allegretto – 8:03

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