Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Francois Leleux (oboe)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paris Bastille Ensemble, Daniel Harding
Leleux's playing...captures the music's underlying calm serenity to near-perfection...Daniel Harding conducts a fine orchestral accompaniment, and the performances of the wind works nicely match...
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Francois Leleux (oboe)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paris Bastille Ensemble, Daniel Harding
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Leleux's playing...captures the music's underlying calm serenity to near-perfection...Daniel Harding conducts a fine orchestral accompaniment, and the performances of the wind works nicely match...
About
French oboist Francois Leleux presents a stunning recording of works by Richard Strauss, including his oboe concerto, one of the finest written for the instrument, and two chamber works, which he performs with his own ensemble, the Paris Bastille Ensemble.
Joining Leleux on the concerto recording is the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Harding, one of our greatest young conductors.
The album will be serviced to all classical media, and a promotional video for the album is being delivered to youtube and other relevant portals. Leleux’s previous Sony recordings have garnered fantastic critical acclaim, securing him as one of the greatest oboeists of his generation:
“impeccable technique” BBC Music Magazine
“a performer of …dexterity, charm and expressive power…” The Guardian
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Awards and reviews
February 2011
Leleux's playing...captures the music's underlying calm serenity to near-perfection...Daniel Harding conducts a fine orchestral accompaniment, and the performances of the wind works nicely match the music's freshness.
February 2011
All the music is beautifully played here, with Francois Leleux leading the Ensemble Paris-Bastille spontaneously and elegantly. The Oboe Concerto is a live recording but all three works enjoy an ideal acoustic and are beautifully balanced.
January 2011
Leleux's performance is marvellous. He draws the creamiest tone from his Marigaux instrument...I don't think I've heard as convincing a performance as this.
12th December 2010
Strauss’s late Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra is one of the most perfect works...In Leleux, a player to rank beside Holliger and Nicholas Daniel, it finds an ideal exponent, full-toned and intellectually agile; and, in Harding, a conductor alert to every rhythmic nuance, and willing to indulge touching little string portamenti.
11th November 2010
[Leleux's] performance of the Oboe Concerto, with Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony, is one of the finest on disc...Leleux's phrasing...rapturous yet infinitely sad, also reminds us that this is a work written in the aftermath of the second world war...Beautiful and hugely recommended.
31st October 2010
Equally inspired by Mozart are the much earlier wind ensemble pieces from the beginning of Strauss's career...has a Mozartian lightness and grace, captured here by François Leleux in playing that is not overpressured but lyrical and rhapsodically detailed.
