Emmanuel Pahud reviews

Emmanuel Pahud reviews

Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G; Serenade, etc

Emmanuel Pahud (flute), et al (Warner Classics)
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Vienne 1900

Eric Le Sage (piano), Zvi Plesser (cello), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Emmanuel Pahud (flute) (Alpha Classics)
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Solo – Telemann: Fantasias for Solo Flute, Nos 1-12; plus solo flute works by Takemitsu, Karg-Elert, Widmann et al

Emmanuel Pahud (Warner)
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Dreamtime

Emmanuel Pahud (flute); Munich Radio Orchestra/Ivan Repušić (Warner Classics)
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Debussy: Sonates & Trio (Capuçon, Chamayou, Caussé, Pahud, Langlamet, Moreau)

There’ll be a lot of Debussy around in 2018, the centenary of the French composer’s death. With this recording, a group of France’s finest musicians gets ahead of the game to celebrate his chamber music – and by doing so prove that sometimes anniversaries can indeed be jolly good things.

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Emmanuel Pahud and Trevor Pinnock perform Flute Concertos by CPE Bach

Although his successors thought highly of CPE Bach – Mozart said ‘although Emmanuel Bach is the father, we are the children’ and Beethoven recommended him as a model to his composition students – he was never so well regarded by Frederick the Great. He joined the Royal Court in 1740 as Chamber Musician, and the three concertos on Emmanuel Pahud’s disc were not commissions from the King but simply arrangements of earlier keyboard concertos.

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Revolution (Emmanuel Pahud)

Emmanuel Pahud’s tribute to the French flute school journeys through three decades of the Revolutionary period, from the mellifluous style galant of Gluck’s G major Concerto to feisty, eclectic and militaristic works by Luigi Gianella, Ignaz Pleyel and François Devienne (known in his day as the ‘Mozart of the Flute’). The bravura and lyricism of Italian opera pervade throughout, and Pahud responds with playing of an aptly vocal quality, eloquently phrased and shaded according to the music’s emotion.

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Ibert • Ravel

Les Vents Français is a starry pan-European group of leading orchestral players and soloists, comprising flautist Emmanuel Pahud, oboist François Leleux, clarinettist Paul Meyer, horn player Radovan Vlatkovi´c and bassoonist Gilbert Audin. 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.

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Dalbavie, Jarrell & Pintscher Flute Concertos (Emmanuel Pahud)

Marc-André Dalbavie, Michael Jarrell and Matthias Pintscher – French, Swiss and German respectively – reflect Emmanuel Pahud’s status as a French-Swiss flautist working in Germany, and their distinctive voices can be heard in their differing approaches to the concerto. In Dalbavie’s Concerto, although the flute is clearly the virtuosic soloist, it does not operate in opposition to, or even dialogue with, the orchestra. Rather it tends to be the dominant colour in a single meta-instrument, the music moving seamlessly around the orchestra.
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Brahms & Reinecke Flute Sonatas (Emmanuel Pahud, Yefim Bronfman)

The success of this recording is due in no small part to the sensitive balancing of Brahms’s richly upholstered piano writing with the flute’s essentially gentle voice by producer Stephen Johns and engineer Paul Zinman. Without in any way robbing Yefim Bronfman’s glorious pianism of its Brahmsian depth and colour, Emmanuel Pahud’s exquisitely pure sound floats in and out of the music’s rolling textures as though it was the most natural thing in the world.
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Emmanuel Pahud: The French Connection

Emmanuel Pahud has a knack for constructing marvellous programmes and this delightful disc is no exception. The composers here are, for the most part, familiar enough, but the repertoire is seldom heard. The vintage port of Paul Meyer’s clarinet is the constant companion to the sparkling lead crystal of Pahud’s flute. The pair excel in Jolivet’s gritty Sonatine, having shared the limelight with oboist François Meyer and pianist Eric le Sage in Milhaud’s Sonata, Op. 47.
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Franck, Strauss & Widor: Works for Flute (Emmanuel Pahud, Eric Le Sage)

Flute sonatas from the Romantic era are reasonably rare, so thanks are due to Emmanuel Pahud for boosting the repertoire by transcribing Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata for the instrument. As with several violinists before him, Pahud has recorded it with Franck’s Violin Sonata, here again transcribed for flute. Although written a year apart (1886 and 1887), these works emerge from very different circumstances: Strauss was 23 with the big hits of his career still to come, Franck, at 68, was four years from death. Pahud and accompanist Eric Le Sage inherently understand this.
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Khachaturian & Ibert: Flute Concertos (Emmanuel Pahud, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich)

This Khachaturian recording poses a dilemma. Should you remain with Jean-Pierre Rampal, the man who transcribed the Violin Concerto for flute and one whose 1970 recording (Erato) exudes the spirit of the composer’s every nuance? Or should you shift to flautist of the moment, Emmanuel Pahud?
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