Emmanuel Pahud, Eric Le Sage – Mozart Stories (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:00 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Mozart is the reason why I became a musician,” reveals Emmanuel Pahud. At the age of four, the Swiss star flautist fell in love with a Mozart flute concerto that he heard a neighbor play – and wanted to be able to play it himself. Mozart’s works have accompanied the winner of the 2024 Léonie Sonning Music Prize ever since, and his fascination has only deepened over the years. “When I play his compositions today,” confesses Pahud, “I feel a connection between body and soul when I breathe in and out. These emotions that arise through the breath while playing – for me, only Mozart can do that, it’s unique. He treats instruments like the human voice”. However, because Mozart’s flute concertos are limited, the composer’s violin sonatas have been transcribed and a selection can now be found on Emmanuel Phaud’s album “Mozart Stories”.
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Andreas Ottensamer, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Emmanuel Pahud, Albrecht Mayer – New Era: Stamitz, Danzi, Mozart (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:55 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ottensamer presents a dazzling selection of the clarinet’s early repertoire from 18th Century Mannheim, with works by J. and C.P. Stamitz, Mozart and Danzi, together with the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
Featuring duets with Albrecht Mayer and Emmanuel Pahud – two of the great wind soloists of our time and Ottensamer’s friends and colleagues at the Berliner Philharmoniker. It promises to be the chamber recording of the year.
The “Mannheim school” was a melting pot of “revolutionary experimentation” – musicians from all over Europe coming together to develop a new explosive and colourful sound – forming the orchestra as we know it today.
The Mannheim Orchestra was also the first to adopt the recently developed clarinet into the orchestra, and here Mozart heard the instrument for the first time.
“It’s fascinating to think that Mannheim inspired so many composers and musicians, and it was the players themselves who made it happen – it gave them the chance to do their own thing. Every aspect of composition, playing, teaching and conducting was concentrated there, and audiences went wild, blown away by the kind of rock-star ensemble that they heard.” Andreas Ottensamer
Ottensamer’s debut album on Decca Classics – the first clarinettist to sign exclusively to the label in its 89 year history.
Emmanuel Pahud, Eric Le Sage – Romances (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:02 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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The SWR called him a “magician”, the Tagespiegel compared him to Pan, the Greek god of flute playing. Without a doubt, there is hardly anyone who can hold a candle to the flutist Emmanuel Pahud in his field. On his album Romances, together with pianist Eric Le Sage, he delves into the world of Romanticism: a great musical passion within his wide-ranging repertoire, which extends from the Baroque to the modern.
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Eric Le Sage, Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuel Pahud, Pierre Colombet, Raphaël Merlin, François Salque – Gabriel Fauré – 4: Duos et trios avec piano (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:30 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the fourth and penultimate volume of his Fauré series, Eric Le Sage has been joined by Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuel Pahud, and François Salque, long-standing accomplices, in order to record these pieces for four hands. Recipient of numerous prizes both in France and abroad, this complete Fauré series is already asserting itself as a reference for the interpretation of Gabriel Fauré’s chamber music with piano.
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Emmanuel Pahud, Orchestre National de France, Alexandre Desplat – Airlines (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:21 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Classical
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With Airlines, supreme instrumentalist, flautist Emmanuel Pahud, takes the music of an Oscar-winning film composer, Alexandre Desplat, into new realms. The album is entirely devoted to world premiere recordings – of original concert works and of reimagined versions of Desplat’s film scores, including Oscar-winners The Shape of Water (2018) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Pahud is accompanied by the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Alexandre Desplat himself.
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Emmanuel Pahud – Solo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:26:50 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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Interweaving the Baroque era and the 20th and 21st centuries, the newest addition to Emmanuel Pahud’s Warner Classics catalogue is an imaginative 2-CD collection of music for unaccompanied flute. Among the composers are Telemann, Nielsen, Honegger, Varèse, Berio, Takemitsu, Pärt, Pintscher and Widmann. “Most of the pieces are about exploring new paths,” says Pahud. “The power of this music often lies in the contrast between a simple line and the most refined complexities, between a note so quiet as to be barely perceptible and the loudest, most extreme notes playable on the instrument.”
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Emmanuel Pahud – Revolution – Flute Concertos by Devienne, Gianella, Gluck & Pleyel (2015)
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Flutist Emmanuel Pahud has a knack for bringing the 18th century alive, and with this quartet of flute concertos he attempts to follow up his successful earlier release The Flute King, which included flute concertos from the orbit of Prussia’s King Frederick the Great. Even allowing for the fact that musical-social correspondences aren’t always as easy to detect as when Beethoven dedicated his Symphony No. 3 to Napoleon and then retracted the dedication, this program is a bit more diffuse in its concept than the last one. Only two of the concertos, by Devienne and Gianella, actually date from the revolutionary period, and none of the four shows much impact of the big operatic style of Spontini that influenced Beethoven and other composers. Pahud in a note sets out the Flute Concerto in G major by (probably) Gluck as a representative of the ancien régime, but if anything with its sensuous slow movement it seems strikingly modern. None of this is to say that the individual pieces, all (even the disputed Gluck work) pretty much unknown, aren’t a lot of fun. Jean-Pierre Rampal used to play several of these works in concert, and Pahud seems to have set his mind on being Rampal’s successor. That’s a worthy aim, and with the confident virtuosity and fine breath control in big lines he seems well on his way to achieving the goal. Check out especially the Flute Concerto No. 7 in E minor by François Devienne, known in his time as the French Mozart; the lively, alert accompaniment by the Kammerorchester Basel under Giovanni Antonini is a major enhancement to Pahud’s work here. A worthwhile flute release reminiscent of the Rampal classics.
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Emmanuel Pahud – Mozart & Flute in Paris (2021)
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Two CDs. Mozart & Flute in Paris brings together nine captivating works, all with their origins in Paris, which feature a solo flute. Emmanuel Pahud is joined by his colleagues from ‘wind supergroup’ Les Vents Francais – oboist Francois Leleux (here also conducting the Orchestre de chambre de Paris), clarinettist Paul Meyer, bassoonist Gilbert Audin and horn-player Radovan Vlatkovic – and by Belgian harpist Anneleen Lenaerts. “The pieces on this album represent different golden ages of the flute,” says Pahud. The earliest, dating from 1778 are two concertante works that Mozart wrote while visiting Paris. The newest, premiered in 2014 by Pahud and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, is Dreamtime by Philippe Hersant. The intervening period is represented by pieces by Saint-Sa”ens, Faur’e, Chaminade and Poulenc, composers whose music embodies France’s special relationship with the flute.
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Emmanuel Pahud – Beethoven: Works for Flute (2020)
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Warner Classics’ final release for Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year is a charming programme of chamber music with flute. The four works, all dating from the earlier years of the composer’s career, were recorded in June 2020 in Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal by a distinguished group of musicians led by Daniel Barenboim, here in his role as pianist, and flautist Emmanuel Pahud.
Joining them are two of Pahud’s colleagues from the Berliner Philharmoniker, the orchestra’s First Concertmaster Daishin Kashimoto and its Principal Viola, Amihai Grosz, and two players with links to the Wiener Philharmoniker, its Principal Bassoon Sophie Dervaux, and Silvia Careddu, formerly its Principal Flute.
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Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser, Eric Le Sage – Vienne 1900 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:55:02 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese composers of the early twentieth century. The most famous and innovative of these are represented: Schoenberg with his Kammersymphonie no.1, Mahler with two lieder transcribed for flute and piano, Zemlinsky’s Clarinet Trio and several pieces by Berg. A programme that encapsulates both the exhaustion of a bygone Romantic age and the avant-garde promises of a modern world still to be built.
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Emmanuel Pahud, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Trevor Pinnock – Bach, C.P.E.: Flute Concertos (2016)
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Emmanuel Pahud returns to music written for The Flute King with these three concertos by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-88), who spent nearly 30 years on the musical staff at the court of Frederick the Great, a powerful monarch and a highly accomplished flautist. Pahud, the long-standing principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, is joined by Kammerakademie Potsdam, directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock.
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