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W. A. Mozart

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On January 7, 2022, the 100th anniversary of Jean-Pierre Rampal's birth, Rampal's timeless masterpiece will be released on a limited edition 180g analog LP disc. Rampal was a master flutist who lifted the flute instrument to the status of a concerto in concert and gained worldwide popularity. After his death in 2000, flutist Eugenia Zukerman said, "His ability to infuse texture and clarity of sound and emotional content was amazing. He was a dazzling virtuoso, but above all, he was a poet of the highest order," she said of him. This album is the most successful recording in the history of the Erato label: two of the finest Mozart recordings of the 1960s, the Concerto for Flute and Harp by Jean-Pierre Rampal and Lily Lasquine, and the Clarinet Concerto by Jacques Lancelot. This masterful recording with Jean-François Paillard and the Chamber Orchestra is full of refinement and elegance befitting the work. Rampal and Laskine's performance is a peerless masterpiece that embodies the best of French fluidity, while clarinetist Lancelot's performance is a definitive masterpiece that has enchanted countless audiences, and Paillard's sublime conducting is a bewitching, ideal, and timeless performance in which every detail is perfectly in tune with the breath. Warner Music Japan