A double CD of wind quintets from Warner Classics exclusive artist, Emmanuel Pahud, and his colleagues in Les Vents Français (Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Francois Leleux, Gilbert Audin, Radovan Vlatkovic). Les Vents Francais celebrate French wind music at its elegant, witty best. Pahud is greatly in demand as a chamber musician and in this context has collaborated with most of the world’s top soloists. As far as Pahud is concerned, ‘it’s like having two musical lives, but one musical world.‘ Previously release in Japan the album won a Record Academy Award for Chamber Music.

Track listing:

Barber, S: Summer Music, Op. 31

Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik for wind quintet, Op. 24 No. 2

Ibert: Pièces brèves (3) for wind quintet

Jolivet: Sonatine pour hautbois et bassoon

Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for wind quintet

Milhaud: La Cheminée du roi René, Op 205

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Transcription : Mason Jones

Taffanel: Wind Quintet

Veress: Sonatina per oboe, clarinetto e Fagotto

Zemlinsky: Humoreske (Rondo). Schulstück für Bläserquintett