Mary Oleskiewicz - Flute Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Johann Joachim Quantz was the most innovative performer and composer for the flute in the eighteenth century. He was also the teacher, composer and flute-maker to Frederick II, 'The Great', King of Prussia. Royal concerts were the principal venue for Quantz's concertos where their constant invention and brilliance were intensified by his specially designed flutes. The a minor Concerto has only recently been retrieved from the Russian National Library in St Petersburg, whilst the G major's cadenzas have been preserved, fully written-out, providing a valuable direct link to performance practices in Quantz's time. Poignantly, Frederick himself completed the C minor Concerto after Quantz's death. Album Tracks 1. Concerto in a Minor, QV 5 238 2. Concerto in G Major, QV 5 165 3. Concerto in C minor, QV 5 38 4. Concerto in D minor, QV 5 81

Album Tracks 1. I. Presto 2. II. Adagio Espressivo 3. III. Vivace-Fast As Possible 4. Rondo Caprice for Flute and Guitar Op. 35 - Denis Azabagic 5. Introduction and Rondo for Flute and Precussion 6. I. with Driving Force, Not Fast 7. II. Sorrowing 8. III. Searching 9. IV. Playful 10. Aeterna for Flute and Viola 11. IV. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 12. V. Andante Molto 13. VI. Allegro 14. I. ('Summer') Tranquillo 15. II. ('Autumn') Allegro Ben Ritmico 16. III. ('Winter Haze...') Adagio 17. IV. ('Principio Di Virtu') Allegro Giusto

Johann Sebastian Bach's flute sonatas undoubtedly require congenial partners, who play together in an unpretentious, equally important way - in the truest sense of the word, in concert. This is brilliantly fulfilled by Lars Ulrik Mortensen with his hardly surpassable vocal playing on the harpsichord and Linde Brunmayr-Tutz with virtuosity and full sound on the transverse flute. On the 10th anniversary of Gustav Leonhardt's death, the album also contains a unique sound document it is the first recording of Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt - both play viola da gamba here! - and also of Eduard Melkus. Under the direction of Josef Mertin, doyen of early music in Vienna, they recorded the 6th Brandenburg Concerto on original instruments for the first time in 1950.