Leclair: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 Leila Schayegh & La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

• Jean-Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764): Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3:
• 1 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3: I. Allegro moderato 05:40
• 2 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3: II. Andante 06:32
• 3 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3: III. Allegro ma non tropo 05:11
• Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 10 No. 1:
• 4 Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 10 No. 1: I. Allegro 04:59
• 5 Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 10 No. 1: II. Andante 03:43
• 6 Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 10 No. 1: III. Giga. Allegro ma non tropo 04:53
• Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 7 No. 1:
• 7 Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 7 No. 1: I. Allegro 03:44
• 8 Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 7 No. 1: II. Aria. Gratioso 04:31
• 9 Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 7 No. 1: III. Vivace 04:13
• Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 7 No. 3:
• 10 Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 7 No. 3: I. Allegro 05:25
• 11 Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 7 No. 3: II. Adagio 05:50
• 12 Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 7 No. 3: III. Allegro assai 04:03
• Total Runtime 58:44

Info for Leclair: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2

With a quartet of violin concertos by Jean-Marie Leclair, Leila Schayegh continues her exploration of the instrument's repertory, combining musical insight, virtuosic brilliance and historical understanding. Leclair, who grew up in Lyon and studied in Turin before moving to Paris (he held a short-lived official post at Louis XV's court in the 1730s) produced solo sonatas (and duos) as well as his acclaimed concertos. In her booklet notes, Leila Schayegh, who currently teaches Baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, comments on how Leclair - an outstanding violinist himself - was in thrall to the Italian instrumental style but was concerned that his music should not be played too fast; he was praised for his netteté, a combination of impeccable technique and musical perfection. This first volume in Schayegh's projected series of recordings of the Leclair violin concertos embraces the Nos 2 and 6 works from the two six-concerto series of Op 7 and 10. The G minor concerto, Op 10 No 6, is frequently cited as being the highpoint of Leclair's output. For this dazzling new exhibition of the Swiss violinist's art, Schayegh - who plays a late-seventeenth-century Andrea Guarneri instrument - directs Basel's La Cetra Barockorchester, which features Eva Saladin as its Konzertmeisterin and Sonoko Asabuki as a further principal violinist.

Leila Schayegh, violin
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

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.

Booklet for Leclair: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2