Les Vents Français: Musical alchemy at Wigmore Hall

By Mark Pullinger, 12 December 2014

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Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 11 December 2014

Farrenc, Sextet for piano and winds in C minor, op. 40

Thuille, Sextet for piano and wind quintet in B flat major, Op.6

Ibert, Trois Pièces Brèves

Caplet, Quintet for Piano and Winds

Poulenc, Sextet for piano and wind quintet, FP 100

Roussel, Divertissement, Op.6

Les Vents Français

Emmanuel Pahud, Flute

François Leleux, Oboe

Paul Meyer, Clarinet

Radovan Vlatković, French horn

Gilbert Audin, Bassoon

Éric Le Sage, Piano

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.