
Boismortier - Flute Sonatas & Suites
£9.86
In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95366
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 20th January 2017
Contents
Works
Sonatas (6) for flute and continuo, op.44Sonatas (6) for flute and harpsichord, op.91
Suites (6) for flute and continuo, op.35
Artists
Jed Wentz (flauto traverso)Musica Ad Rhenum
Works
Sonatas (6) for flute and continuo, op.44Sonatas (6) for flute and harpsichord, op.91
Suites (6) for flute and continuo, op.35
Artists
Jed Wentz (flauto traverso)Musica Ad Rhenum
About
This set shares those qualities, with the additional appeal of comprehensiveness. No survey of the French Baroque would be complete without Boismortier, but few performers have committed to disc more than a Sonata or Suite here and there, cherry‐picking from the composer’s prolific output of over one hundred published opus numbers, most of which contain six separate works.
Agreeable melodies apparently poured out of Boismortier; the Op.35 Suites and Op.44 Sonatas were written in 1731 and 1733 respectively, during a golden period of composition for him, and a highly profitable one, since he had acquired a royal warrant to engrave and publish all his own work. The Op.91 Sonatas date from the beginning of the 1740s, shortly before he became music director at the Théâtre de la foire in Paris. Here Boismortier achieved a perfect, an almost seamless blend of the French and Italian styles.
Jed Wentz is a scholar and flutist who has made many critically acclaimed recordings for Brilliant Classics, most of them with his own ensemble, Musica ad Rhenum, which consists of a flexible line‐up of no less stylish and experienced earlymusic performers. On this recording he is joined by gambist Cassandra Luckhardt, cellist Job ter Haar and harpsichordist Michael Borgstede. As usual Wentz contributes his own wide‐ranging essay to the booklet, including research which makes clear that a dogmatic, score‐bound performance will not do for Boismortier any more than it would for Brahms.
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here