Leclair: Violin Concertos Leila Schayegh & La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

• Jean-Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764): Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 7 No. 6:
• 1 Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 7 No. 6: I. Allegro ma non presto 09:19
• 2 Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 7 No. 6: II. Aria. Grazioso non troppo adagio 05:09
• 3 Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 7 No. 6: III. Giga. Allegro 05:03
• Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 7 No. 2:
• 4 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 7 No. 2: I. Adagio - Allegro ma non troppo 06:55
• 5 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 7 No. 2: II. Adagio 04:24
• 6 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 7 No. 2: III. Allegro 05:41
• Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 10 No. 2:
• 7 Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 10 No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo 05:16
• 8 Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 10 No. 2: II. Adagio 05:09
• 9 Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 10 No. 2: III. Allegro ma non troppo 04:37
• Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 10 No. 6:
• 10 Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 10 No. 6: I. Allegro ma poco 07:48
• 11 Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 10 No. 6: II. Aria gratioso. Andante 02:33
• 12 Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 10 No. 6: III. Allegro 06:20
• Total Runtime 01:08:14

Info for Leclair: Violin Concertos

This first part of an ongoing complete set of Leclair's violin concertos includes Nos. 2 and 6 of the two concert series, Op. VII and X. The Concerto in G minor No. 6, Op. X is often considered to be the composer's finest work. In this dazzling display of talent, Schayegh plays a late 17th century Andrea Guarneri at the head of La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, which includes Eva Saladin, Konzertmeisterin, and Sonoko Asabuki, third principal violin (Leclair's concertos often featuring three solo violins).

La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Leila Schayegh, violine

Leila Schayegh
belongs to the most visible violinists in the current baroque music scene.

Her vivacious interpretation has placed her at the center of old music. She performes all over Europe as a soloist or in chamber music groups and is regularly invited by modern orchestras for concerts and masterclasses.

Leila Schayegh has developed a close collaboration with Jörg Halubek, cembalist, organist and director. Their 2016 recording of Bach’s six obligato sonatas was awarded numerous prizes (Diapason de l’année, Grammophone Award, Schallenplattpreis). Her collaboration with director and cembalist Vaclav Luks led to the recordings of Benda’s violin sonatas (Diapason d’Or 2011) and Mysliveček’s violin concertos in 2018. She’s been playing since 2008 with Gli Angéli Genève (directed by Stephan MacLeod), in particular for the almost complete series of Bach’s cantatas. She’s recently expended her repertoire towards the classical and romantic period, in particular with a recording of Brahms’s violin sonatas in 2018 with Jan Schultsz for the label Glossa.

Since 2010 she is professor of baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, as successor of Chiara Banchini. She passes to a new generation of musician her experience as well as approach of music: an expressive interpretation based on thorough knowledge of the historical and musical context of the period where the works were composed.

Born in Winterthur (Switzerland), she finished in 1999 her studies in modern violin with Raphaël Oleg at the Basel Music Academy with Summa cum laude. After two years as a member of the Philharmonia Zurich, she joined the class of Biara Banchini at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she obtained in 2005 a diploma Summa cum laude. She was awarded in 2003 the first prizes of the Alte Musiktreff in Berlin, the Förderpreiswettbewerb der Konzertgesellschaft in München as well as Premio Bonporti in Rovereto, Italy.

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