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An Edinburgh festival debut in 2012 from Les Vents Français.

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall series over the past decade. Today Jamie MacDougall introduces an Edinburgh festival debut from 2012, as Les Vents Français perform a charmingly witty programme of mostly French music by Ibert, Ravel, Barber, Milhaud, Zemlinsky and Taffanel.

Ibert: Trois pièces brèves
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Milhaud: Quintet 'La Cheminée du Roi René'

INTERVAL: Emmanuel Pahud, Ella Fitzgerald and Jacques Loussier perform jazz arrangements of Ravel, Debussy and Bach.

Barber: Summer Music
Zemlinsky: Humoreske
Taffanel: Quintette

Les Vents Français

Photograph - Wolfgang Lienbacher

1 hour, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Jacques Ibert

    Trois pièces brèves

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Quintet 'La Cheminée du Roi René'

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infant defunte

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Jacky Terrasson. Performer: Sean Smith. Performer: Ali Jackson. Music Arranger: Emmanuel Pahud. Music Arranger: Jacky Terrasson.
    • Into The Blue.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Claude Debussy

    My Reverie

    Performer: Lou Levy. Performer: Herb Ellis. Performer: Gus Johnson. Music Arranger: Larry Clinton. Singer: Ella Fitzgerald. Singer: Joe Mondragon.
    • Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!.
    • Verve.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Minor: Fugue

    Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.
    • Jacques Loussier ‎– Play Bach 2000.
    • KAZ.
  • Samuel Barber

    Summer Music, Op. 31

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Humoreske

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
  • Paul Taffanel

    Quintette

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
  • György Ligeti

    Bagatella No. 4

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Six Brandenburgh Concertos.
    • Linn.

Broadcast

  • Wed 26 Aug 2020 11:00