Ignaz Pleyel: Symphonies (Naxos Audio CD)  

Symphony in G major (Benton 130)
Flute Concerto in C major (Benton 106)
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä • Patrick Gallois, conductor & flute

During his long and energetic life, Ignaz Joseph Pleyel distinguished himself as a composer, publisher and piano manufacturer. His versatility, one of the keys to his survival in the turbulent years of the French Revolution, is also to be found in abundance in his vast musical output. This recording features two scintillating symphonies and Pleyel’s only authentic concerto for flute; all three works amply illustrate the reason why he achieved such an unprecedented level of popularity
in the last two decades of the 18th Century.

Patrick Gallois belongs to the generation of French musicians leading highly successful international careers as both soloist and conductor. For Naxos he has recorded the complete flute concertos of C.P.E. Bach (8.555715-16), Haydn’s Symphonies Nos.1-5 (8.557571) and Gounod’s Symphonies (8.557463), among other works.