WHO would have thought that a recital of music for oboe and piano could have elicited such a variety of moods? Already with the opening piece, Saint-Saëns’ Oboe Sonata Op. 166, we were treated to the ...

Frenchman François Leleux is one of a growing number of musicians who run parallel careers as soloists and conductors. For his St. Paul Chamber Orchestra debut, Leleux plays an Oboe Concerto with ...

The chamber orchestra is often the Cinderella of the music world - small forces and small resources, which means the conductor often has to double up as the soloist. Did you know with a Digital ...

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What a treat to have Francois Leleux in town. The principal oboe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, he is arguably the foremost solo oboist of his time. What a responsibility for the City Chamber ...

French oboist and conductor François Leleux brought a winning mixture of virtuosity, theatricality and wit to this thoroughly refreshing concert, writes Ken Walton How lucky we are that world-class ...

Live from London’s Wigmore Hall in London, and introduced by Hannah French, oboist François Leleux plays sonatas by Saint-Saëns and Henri Dutilleux along with an arrangement made especially for him of ...

Opening a concert with a Beethoven symphony is unconventional programming, but his Symphony no. 4 in B flat major, described by Robert Schumann as a “slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants” – a ...

A SPONTANEOUS cheer went up when Lammermuir Festival co-director James Waters announced that François Leleux had agreed to be resident artist at next year’s Festival. That was understandable, given ...

Georges Bizet was 17, and a student working on a piano reduction of Charles Gounod’s symphonies, when he wrote his own solitary Symphony. Which then lay undiscovered for 80 years, until a musicologist ...

As part of our programme on Friday evening at St David's Hall with associate guest conductor François-Xavier Roth, we will perform Strauss' beautiful Oboe Concerto. As we are using reduced strings for ...