Orchestra Barocca di Cremona - Giuseppe Sammartini: Sonate A Due Flauti Traversi Col Loro Basso, Op. - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Giordani's activity was indeed fashionable, having success both with operas and with instrumental music. The composition of these flute concertos dates back to an unspecified period of the 18th century, but their structure is unquestionably within the golden classical principles of the sonata form, allowing us to place them temporally between 1765 and 1775. The concertos offer the listener a realistic glimpse of the flute technique of the time that would soon see the Romantic Era blossom. In this recording, the instrument used is a copy of a mid-eighteenth-century C. Palanca, with a diapason of about 420 hz.

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This recording focuses on concertante works for two flutes and orchestra by Italian contemporaries of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There is documentary evidence for Mozart and Cambini having met in Paris. Common to all three works are high-spirited introductory Allegros and brilliantly scored, virtuosic Rondos. The wonderful Largo in Cimarosa's Concerto is particularly attractive a true 'Dance of the blessed spirits for two flutes'. Flutists Domique Hunziker and Anne Utagawa have been working together for many years. They founded the group 'les joueurs de flute' in 1985. The ensemble features a line-up of eight outstanding performers from Switzerland, Germany, and Japan. For this , Hunziker and Utagawa are joined by the Orchestre de Chambre Paul Kuentz.