François Lazarevitch is known to readers of Duty for his many original projects with Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, often mixing popular and scholarly repertoires (Barbarian Beauty, The Queen’s Delight). Her Baroque Christmas is certainly in the “top 5” of the genre. Lazarevitch, from the dynasty, well known here, of baroque flutist-conductors, also expresses himself as a soloist. After a disc of CPE Bach sonatas with Justin Taylor, here he is with his orchestra in THE disc of the genre: the two flute concertos by Mozart and the one for flute and harp. The approach is that of a “post-Bach” Mozart chamber-salon player, with reduced numbers and a transparent and very “straight” sound, minimally vibrated. Here, nothing metallic, obviously, with this one-key flute, an ancient boxwood instrument that brought the modern transverse flute. One can find this a little dry, but those who dream of a “baroque” Mozart, at his best in the Concerto for flute and harp (played by Sandrine Chatron), will appreciate.
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