SCHUBERT, HAYDN, MENDELSSOHN – FRANÇOIS LELEUX Ferencsik/5

SCHUBERT, HAYDN, MENDELSSOHN – FRANÇOIS LELEUX
 
Franz SCHUBERT: Overture in C major “in the Italian Style”, D. 591
Franz SCHUBERT: Rosamunde – Overture, D. 797 
Joseph HADYN: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, Hob. VIIe/1 
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Felix MENDELSSOHN: Songs Without Words for Oboe and Strings – arrangement by Andreas N. Tarkmann 
Felix MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 in A major (“Italian”), Op. 90 

Gábor Tarkövi trumpet 
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor and featuring on oboe: François Leleux

This concert centres on the performance of two world-class wind virtuosos. The Hungarian trumpet player Gábor Tarkövi (b. 1969) furthered his career abroad after initially studying in Hungary. After gaining experience with the Württemberg Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, he served as principal trumpet of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2004 to 2019. Since 2019, he has been professor of trumpet at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. The French oboist François Leleux (b. 1971) was appointed principal oboe of the Paris Opera at the age of just 18, and later held the same position with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. A highly regarded soloist and chamber musician, and a member of the world-famous wind quintet Les Vents Français, he is also a successful conductor and the first permanent guest artist of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. On this occasion, he will appear in both capacities, conducting the entire evening’s programme and, after the interval, performing a selection from Felix Mendelssohn’s (1809–1847) Songs without Words, in the arrangement by Andreas N. Tarkmann. Before the interval, Gábor Tarkövi will play Joseph Haydn’s (1732–1809) carefree and energetic Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major (Hob. VIIe/1), which the composer wrote in 1796 for the Austrian virtuoso Anton Weidinger. The trumpet concerto is preceded by Franz Schubert’s (1797–1828) incidental music to Rosamunde (1823). The concert is framed by two works with Italian connections: it opens with Schubert’s Overture in the Italian Style in C major (1817), and concludes with Mendelssohn’s four-movement Italian Symphony (1833/34), which was inspired by his travels and incorporates Italian musical influences.