Eric Le Sage reviews
Vienne 1900
Eric Le Sage (piano), Zvi Plesser (cello), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Emmanuel Pahud (flute) (Alpha Classics)
Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat, Op. 11; Clarinet Trio, Op. 38
Eric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, Claudio Bohórquez (Alpha Classics)
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.