Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie / Alexis Kossenko
C.P.E.’s concertos for traverso
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Recorded live at the Geertekerk Utrecht, 3 September 2022
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About this concert
Today Alexis Kossenko is performing not only as a musical director but also as a soloist with Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie. With his traverso he takes the lead in two concertos for flute and orchestra that C.P.E. Bach composed in Berlin. With their energetic opening, virtuosic solo passages and punctuated rhythms, Wq 22 and 169 deliver some of the most turbulent pages in Wotquenne’s catalogue.
Programme
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Flute concerto in G major, Wq 169
Allegro
Largo
Presto
Flute concerto in D minor, Wq 22
Allegro
Un poco andante
Allegro di molto1714-1788
Musicians
- Stefano Rossi (solo), Murielle Pfister, Yannis Roger, Akane Hagihara, Diana Lee, David Wish, Emmanuelle Dauvin violin
- Maialen Loth, Laurent Muller viola
- Tormod Dalen, Gulrim Choï cello
- Damien Guffroy double bass
- Emmanuel Arakelian harpsichord
- Alexis Kossenko musical direction & flute (solo)
About the performers
Two renowned ensembles come together in this company. La Grande Écurie and La Chambre du Roy, founded in 1966 by Jean-Claude Malgoire, caused a stir at the time by choosing to play period instruments. After Malgoire's death in 2018, the musicians of La Grande Écurie chose Alexis Kossenko, at that time the leader of the Les Ambassadeurs ensemble, to take over the baton. In 2020 the merger became a fact.
Frenchman Alexis Kossenko is currently fulfilling a successful double career as a flautist and conductor. As a player he feels at home on various types of flute, from the baroque recorder to the modern transverse flute. Among other things he was first flautist in Philippe Herreweghe's Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. As a conductor Kossenko leads the amalgamated ensembles Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie. He has been a guest conductor with, among other ensembles, Holland Baroque and Concerto Copenhagen.