Composer: Arcangelo Califano, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Johann David Heinichen, Antonio Lotti, Johann Joachim Quantz, Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Catalogue: A438
Release: 2017
Size: 1.45 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Fasch: Sonata for 2 Oboes, Bassoon and Continuo in B-Flat Major, FaWV N
01. B2: I. Andante
02. B2: II. Allegro
03. B2: III. Largo
04. B2: IV. Allegro
Quantz: Sonata in A Minor, QV 2
05. 41a / b: I. Andante
06. 41a / b: II. Allegro
07. 41a / b: III. Largo
08. 41a / b: IV. Allegro
Heinichen: Sonata in B-Flat Major, SeiH 257
09. I. Affectuoso
10. II. Allegro
11. III. [Largo]
12. IV. Allegro
Vivaldi: Sonata a quattro in C Major, RV 801
13. I. Largo
14. II. Allegro
15. III. Largo
16. IV. Allegro
Telemann: Trio Sonata in C Minor, TWV 42
17. c4: I. Lentement
18. c4: II. Viste
19. c4: III. Lentement avec douceur
20. c4: IV. Gay
Califano: Sonata a quattro in C Major
21. I. Vivace
22. II. Siciliano
23. III. Allegro
Fasch: Sonata for 2 Oboes, Bassoon and Continuo in G Minor, FaWV N
24. g1: I. Largo
25. g1: II. Allegro
26. g1: III. Largo
27. g1: IV. Allegro
Lotti: Echo in F Major
28. I. [Allegro]
29. II. Adagio
30. III. Allegro
An ensemble selected from the excellent Capelle of Friedrich August I in Dresden, the Cammer-Musique and its leader, the phenomenal oboist Johann Christian Richter, inspired some of the leading German composers and Italian guests at the court around 1720 to write sonatas in which oboes and bassoon are challenged with extremely expressive and virtuosic parts. This was the time and place in which the largest amount of impressive music with oboe and bassoon as soloists in history was written. German composers such as Heinichen, Zelenka, Fasch and Quantz wrote these pieces in the Italian style, with the typical alternation between singing adagios and brilliant allegros. Telemann composed a sonata with ornamentation and affects inspired by the French style. Lotti, who resided in Dresden between 1717 and 1719, also noticed the outstanding skills of the court’s wind players and wrote his only solo pieces for these instruments there. Vivaldi met Richter during the latter’s visit to Venice in 1716, when he accompanied the Elector to the city, and he too dedicated some remarkable oboe and bassoon solos to the German musician.