Lumière Céline Moinet & Florian Uhlig

• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, FP. 186:
• 1 Poulenc: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, FP. 186: I. Elégie 05:29
• 2 Poulenc: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, FP. 186: II. Scherzo 04:06
• 3 Poulenc: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, FP. 186: III. Déploration 04:39
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Le Tombeau de Couperin:
• 4 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: I. Prélude (Arr. for oboe and piano) 03:15
• 5 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: II. Fugue (Arr. for oboe and piano) 03:09
• 6 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: III. Forlane (Arr. for oboe and piano) 05:30
• 7 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon (Arr. for oboe and piano) 03:11
• 8 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: V. Menuet (Arr. for oboe and piano) 04:28
• 9 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin: VI. Toccata (Arr. for oboe and piano) 03:57
• Francis Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon:
• 10 Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon: I. Presto 06:02
• 11 Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon: II. Andante 03:45
• 12 Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon: III. Rondo 03:27
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): Rhapsodie (Arr. For Englishhorn und Piano):
• 13 Debussy: Rhapsodie (Arr. For Englishhorn und Piano) 11:12
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921): Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166:
• 14 Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166: I. Andantino 03:11
• 15 Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166: II. Ad libitum - Allegretto - Ad libitum 05:49
• 16 Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166: III. Molto allegro 02:37
• Claude Debussy: Piano Trio in D Major, L.5:
• 17 Debussy: Piano Trio in D Major, L.5: III. Andante espressivo (Arr. for oboe, bassoon and piano) 03:57
• Total Runtime 01:17:44

Info for Lumière

The oboe is said to be one of the most complex instruments there is, not only for players but for those who compose music for it, too. As a performer and professor, Céline Moinet has studied almost every single piece for the oboe in recent years. This she knows all too well that not every composer has been able to handle and stage the instrument in their music in a way that truly does it justice.A few stand out from the crowd, and the musician has already devoted herself to them in detail in her past album projects, including Bach, Schumann, Beriot and Britten to name a few. On this album, Céline Moinet turns her gaze towards her home country France, to the composers whose work made her fall in love with the oboe as a young girl: Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Celine Moinet, oboe & Cor anglais
Sophie Dervaux, bassoon
Florian Uhlig, piano

Céline Moinet
For the past ten years, Céline Moinet has been one of the most exceptional performing artists on her instrument. The young oboist’s concerts bring both audiences and critics alike to rapturous applause.

Céline Moinet is in demand as a soloist with all the major orchestras in the world. She has played at the Salzburg Easter Festival under Christoph Eschenbach, with the Staatskapelle Dresden, at the Pacific Music Festival under Fabio Luisi and with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Suntory Hall. She also regularly tours solo with the Dresden Kapellsolisten and the Kammerorchester Basel.

Céline Moinet was born in Lille, France in 1984 and completed her studies with highest honours at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique under the tutelage of David Walter and Maurice Bourgue. She continued her artistic training with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the orchestra of the National Theater Mannheim. At just 23 years of age, Céline Moinet won the prestigious position of solo oboist at the Staatskapelle Dresden. Since then, she has performed with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado and Andris Nelsons. She is also a regular guest of orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Céline Moinet is signed with harmonia mundi as an exclusive artist. Her recordings, with works for solo oboe and chamber music with oboe and harp, have been praised by the critics and have achieved outstanding sales for the French, German and British record industries. As a result, Céline Moinet was invited by renowned TV Network Arte and Rolando Villazón to appear on the show “Stars of Tomorrow”.

Since 2013, Céline Moinet has had a chair at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music and she conducts master courses in France, Germany and Japan.

Florian Uhlig
That was the assessment published by the doyen of music critics, Joachim Kaiser, of a recording of Beethoven’s piano variations released on the hänssler CLASSIC label in 2009. Since then, Florian Uhlig has recorded some 20 other releases on the same label, all of which have received high praise in international journals and won awards (e.g. German Record Critics’ Prize): complete works for piano and orchestra of Robert Schumann and Dmitri Shostakovich, piano concertos by Ravel, Poulenc, Françaix, Debussy and Penderecki, as well as Ravel’s and Schumann’s complete works for solo piano.

Florian Uhlig was born in Düsseldorf and gave his first piano recital at the age of twelve. He studied in London at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, finishing with the concert diploma. He was also influenced by working with Peter Feuchtwanger and by his research towards a PhD thesis at the University of London on the role of the performer in the context of musical genre. Florian Uhlig reconciles contradictions in an unusual manner. On the one hand, he is rooted in the German music tradition, which is associated with seriousness, style and structure, while on the other, his many years in London have led him to develop more of an individual approach to musical works than is usual on the “continent”: pointed liberties, eccentric combinations of repertoire and curiosity about rare works.

Florian Uhlig made his orchestral debut at the Barbican in London in 1997. Since then he has appeared at leading concert halls across the world, performing with orchestras like the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with conductors like Krzysztof Penderecki, Josep Caballé, Claus Peter Flor, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Kristjan Järvi, Michail Jurowski, Michael Sanderling and Gerard Schwarz.

Sein Orchesterdebüt gab Florian Uhlig 1997 im Londoner Barbican. Seitdem führt ihn eine rege Konzerttätigkeit in die bedeutendsten internationalen Säle. Er konzertiert mit Orchestern wie dem BBC Symphony Orchestra, dem Beijing Symphony Orchestra, der Deutschen Radio Philharmonie, der Dresdner Philharmonie, der Hong Kong Sinfonietta, dem Polnischen Radio-Sinfonieorchester, dem Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, dem National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, dem Kammerorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks, dem Stuttgarter Kammerorchester und dem Wiener Kammerorchester. Seine künstlerische Zusammenarbeit verbindet ihn mit Dirigenten wie Krzysztof Penderecki, Josep Caballé, Claus Peter Flor, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Kristjan Järvi, Michail Jurowski, Michael Sanderling und Gerard Schwarz.

Florian Uhlig has performed at the Beethoven Festivals of Bonn and Warsaw, the Casals Festival, Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, France Musique Paris, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Vienna Festwochen.

In addition to his solo activities Florian Uhlig is much in demand as a chamber musician and lieder pianist. He was the last partner of the legendary baritone Hermann Prey.

In 2009, Florian Uhlig founded the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival in South Africa. As Artistic Director, he has since then guided the fortunes of the two-week music festival, which presents symphony and choral concerts as well as chamber and solo recitals featuring top-class ensembles and artists, additionally exerting important influences in the fields of interdisciplinary projects, contemporary music, the promotion of young artists and social integration.

Appointed Professor of Piano at the Musikhochschule Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in 2014, Florian Uhlig is assuming the same role at the Musikhochschule Lübeck since October 2019. He holds masterclasses in Germany, France, Great Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, China and Switzerland.

Florian Uhlig was accorded Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music in London in May 2015.

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