Francois Leleux and Hebrides Ensemble

Yester House

Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370
Bridge Lament
Britten Metamorphoses after Ovid
Bevan-Baker Duo
Mozart Quintet in C minor K406

Hebrides Ensemble
François Leleux Oboe

François Leleux is for many the world’s finest oboist. In the incomparably beautiful ballroom at Yester he and the superb Hebrides Ensemble play two great works by Mozart, mark Britten’s centenary and introduce an evocative little piece by John Bevan-Baker.

“Leleux is a star act… phenomenal skill and personality… a vast range of colours and dynamics, delivered with winking wit through an oboe constantly circling the air”

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Running time 2 hours

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The concert is on the first floor of Yester House, only accessible by stairs.

Yester House

Situated on an ancient estate on the edge of Gifford, this great house was begun at the end of the 17th Century by James Smith and Alexander McGill. In the early 18th Century the owner, The 4th Marquis of Tweedale, engaged William Adam to continue the work and when he died his more famous son Robert Adam made major alterations in the classical Palladian style. As well as modifying the exterior he designed the magnificent saloon or ballroom, the house’s most glorious feature and widely regarded as one of the great rooms of Scotland. From 1972, Yester was for many years the home of the composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

 

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