Benda: 6 Sonatas and 6 Sonatinas for Fortepiano

• An absolutely UNIQUE edition: there is no other CD in the present catalogue which is completely dedicated to the keyboard works of Jiri Antonio (in Germany known as Georg Anton) Benda, court composer and keyboard player of Frederick the Great!

• A collection of fascinating works, admired not only by his contemporaries such as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (who was a close friend of Jiri Benda and his brother Frantisek), but also by Mozart who wrote extensively and admiringly about these works to his father when in Mannheim.

• Frederick the Great possessed no less than fifteen fortepianos built by Gottfried Silbermann (who was also famous as a keyboard player fimself) and these perfomances here are played on a beautiful copy of one of the few original instruments by Silbermann that still exist, which is nowadays kept in tbe German National Museum In Nuremburg.

• All performances here are based on the original first editions.

• Through his many recordings for Globe, Jacques Ogg 's name has become synonymous with performances of the highest order, showing an unfailing insight into the musical as well as the historical aspects of the composers he chooses to perform.

Jacques Ogg was born in Maastricht and studied harpsichord at the Conservatory in his city of birth with Anneke Uillenbosch. 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 fortepiano player, he appeared all over Europe and in North and South America as well as Japan. He is the regular accompanist of such eminent musicians as Wilbert Hazelzet, Anner Bijlsma, Max van Egmond, Ricardo Kanji and Aida Stuurop and member of several leading baroque ensembles like 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 (El Escorial), Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.