Sammartini / Stegmann / Friggi - Concertos for Recorder & Oboe - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Robert Woodcock was not a professional musician. He was a painter and ships were his favorite subjects many of those are now displayed in National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and testify to his skills. He did not make a living out of music, yet he played the oboe and in 1727 he published a collection of twelve concertos. In the 1720s London's public was mesmerized by the newly-imported Italian concerto and by the virtuosity of the several wind players who performed on the English stages on different instruments. Woodcock, who scored his music for sixth-flute (a soprano recorder in D), oboe, and traverso with string accompaniment, wrote some of the music played by those virtuosi. He was a contemporary of Handel and it is not by chance that one of his pieces was for a long time attributed to Handel. On this new , Ensemble Odyssee presents the complete recorder and oboe concertos by Woodcock together with some lesser-known orchestra works by Charles Dieupart and Sammartini's celebrated recorder concerto in a new and fresh performance. Album Tracks 1. I. Allegro - Anna Stegmann/Ensemble Odyssee 2. II. Siciliano - Anna Stegmann/Ensemble Odyssee 3. III. Allegro Assai - Anna Stegmann/Ensemble Odyssee 4. Concerto a 5 in a Major - Ensemble Odyssee 5. I. Largo - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 6. II. Allegro - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 7. III. Adagio - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 8. IV. Minuets I and II - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 9. I. Largo - Ensemble Odyssee 10. II. Allegro - Ensemble Odyssee 11. III. Adagio - Ensemble Odyssee 12. IV. Minuets I and II - Ensemble Odyssee 13. I. Adagio - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 14. II. Allegro - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 15. III. Andante - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 16. IV. Allegro - Georg Fritz/Ensemble Odyssee 17. I. Allegro - Anna Stegmann/Ensemble Odyssee 18. II. Siciliana - Anna Ste