"Lajos Lencsés is one of the greatest oboists of our time" – thus wrote the French Diapason

magazine in 1990, when his recording won the prestigious "Diapason d’Or" Award. Lencsés was

born in Dorog (Hungary) in 1943 and studied at the Budapest Academy of Music, and then at the

Paris Conservatory. His international career started with victory in the Geneva International

Competition in 1968. He is a member of the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, and also a

soloist of world renown. His rich repertoire ranges from the Baroque age to contemporary music,

and he has recorded dozens of discs.

Various oboe concerts by French composer Leclair, the German composter Stölzel, Bohemian

Stamitz, and Russian Handoshkon, performed by a Hungarian oboist, under the direction of an

Armenian conductor and supported by a German orchestra … if that does not deserve to be

labelled “cosmopolitan”! Besides the exotic appeal this constellation alone emanates, these rare

concerts will also teach us about many aspects regarding the musical development from Baroque

to the classical period.