Claudio Martínez Mehner, Rees Webster, Emile Souvagie, Orquesta de Cámara del Encuentro de Música de Santander, Dávid Blaga, Péter Csaba, Ramón Ortega Quero, Ana Ferraz & George Strivens
Works by Beethoven, Gounod, Sibelius a. o.
Works by Beethoven, Gounod, Sibelius a. o.
This concert, recorded at Sala Argenta of the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Santander, Spain, includes both chamber music and orchestral works. The program opens with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 16, performed by Rees Webster (oboe), Emile Souvagie (clarinet), Dávid Blaga (bassoon), George Strivens (horn), and Claudio Martínez Mehner (piano). The program continues with Charles Gounod’s Petite Symphonie in B-flat major, which is scored for wind ensemble. The work is performed by Ana Ferraz (flute), Ramón Ortega and Mirjam Hodossy-Takács (oboe), Hanna Hujanen and Takahiro Katayama (clarinet), Manuel Angulo and Kamil Szulc (bassoon), and Ignacio Sánchez and Nikola Radić (horn). After, conductor Péter Csaba leads the Orquesta de Cámara del Encuentro de Música de Santander in a performance of Jean Sibelius’s Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1, followed by Darius Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58. This performance was recorded on July 22, 2022.