BRILLIANT OBOE. Haydn and Brahms
Richard Strauss
Suite for Winds in B-flat major, Op. 4
Joseph Haydn
Oboe Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIg:C1
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
FRANÇOIS LELEUX oboe, ERSO
In December, French oboist François Leleux, who has long been considered one of the best oboe players of our time, will perform with the orchestra. The Estonian audience knows him from the Pärnu Music Festival, where he performed in the summer of 2023. He is globally famous as a soloist and a conductor, and this time, he will fill both roles for ERSO.
The concert includes the suite for 13 wind instruments in B-flat major by Richard Strauss, where Leleux will team up with the wind section of ERSO. The composer wrote it in his youth and the piece marks a crucial milestone in his career. Leleux will perform the Oboe Concerto by Joseph Haydn as a soloist; the concerto is particularly fascinating due to the question of its provenance. Although it has been attributed to Haydn, musicologists are convinced that the concerto was written by someone else. The programme for the evening also includes Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Brahms. By the time Brahms wrote this composition, the doubts and toils of creating his first symphony were behind him, so the pastoral mood of the second symphony attests to the mental balance of the author.