Flute Sonatas

- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote most of his flute sonatas when he worked as a harpsichordist at the famous court of Frederick the Great, the enlightened, flute-planying monarch. His Sonata for solo flute was undoubtedly inspired by the Partita in a minor, BWV 1013 by his famous father Johann Sebastian.

- This CD offers a very generous selection from these wonderful and unique sonatas, performed on original instruments in the authentic way with which the performers here are internationally associated. Most interesting is the use of a copy of a very early fortepiano, the same model from the same build eras was present at the court of Frederick the Great, after an original built by Gottfried Silbermann in 1749. This is the same instrument on which Jacques Ogg recorded his immensely successful CD with 6 Sonatas and 6 Sonatinas by Benda (Globe GLO 5092).

 

Wilbert Hazelzet is not only considered to be one of the leading baroque flute players, but also as an authority in the field of the baroque flute. As soloist he forms a permanent duo with Jacques Ogg, harpsichord and fortepiano, and with Konrad Junghänel, lute. He is the first flautist of Ton Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, has made numerous recordings for radio and television stations all over the world, and for several recording companies such as DGG, Erato and Harmonia Mundi. He has appeared in Japan, India, China, the USA, Canada, and all over Europe, from Finland to Portugal, and from Eire to Russia.

Jacques Ogg was born in Maastricht and studied harpsichord at the Conservatory in his city of birth with Anneke Uittenbosch. In 1970 he went to study with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1974. Not only as harpsichordist but also as forte piano player, he appeared all over Europe and in North and South America as well as Japan. He is the regular accompanist of eminent musicians such as Wilbert Hazelzet, Anner Bijlsma, Max van Egmond, Ricardo Kanji and Alda Stuurop and member of several leading baroque ensembles like Les Élements Amsterdam, Concerto Paletino, Quartetto Amsterdam and Quintetto Domenico. Jacques Ogg is professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and at the Academy for Ancient Music in Amsterdam. He also regularly gives master classes in Cambridge, Granada, Madrid (EI Escorial), Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Christiaan Norde studied the cello with Carl van Leeuwen Boomkamp in Amsterdam, and he is a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and of the Philidor Trio.