Les Buffardins - Solos for a German Flute - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Gradually artists also deal with the musicians who were part of the environment Handel in London. Among them was that of Quantz and Burney so highly regarded Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750), who worked in London since 1728 as oboe virtuoso and composer, but at times also played in the opera orchestra Handel. Of his contemporaries Sammartini was touted as the best oboist Europe. There are strong indications that he, as it was then not uncommon at an early age and flute (InchGerman FluteInch) played and was therefore well equipped to meet the rampant Traversflöte fashion in London of the 1730s. The ensemble Les Buffardins to the transverse flutist Frank Theuns juxtaposes some of his time esteemed Flötensonaten Sammartini such penned Handel, where it has set up following a former practice oboe sonatas for flute.

Les Violons du Roy - LALANDE SIMPHONIES DES NOELS [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/11/2016

?Johann Joachim Quantz had already made a career as a flutist at the Dresden court in the chapels of Augustus the Strong when he was heard by the young Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia during a state visit to Berlin. He immediately engaged him as a flute teacher. Later, after he had been crowned king, he hired Quantz as a Inchcourt composerInch without any obligation to play in the orchestra. His duties were to organise and conduct the royal evening concerts and to give flute lessons to the sovereign. This obligation gave rise to a large number of concertos, which are, however, little known because only three copies were ever made for the king's various residences, Inchpour CharlottenbourgInch, Inchpour Sans SouciInch and Inchpour le nouveau PalaisInch. Thus, in 2012, the recording of the renowned transverse flutist Frank Theuns was a great achievement, whose selection of four flute concertos by Johann Joachim Quantz are now available again on CD as a re- .