This hour features a new, special early music CD. Today oboe concertos by contemporaries Vivaldi, Telemann and Bach, and flute sonates by Giovanni Battista Somis.
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
1. Concerto in d minor for oboe, strings and basso continuo, TWV 51: d1
– Adagio
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
2. Concerto in d minor for two oboes, strings and basso continuo, RV 535
– Largo
– Allegro
– Largo
– Allegro molto
Ensemble 18+ with the cooperation of Vilém Veverka and Dominik Wollenweber, oboe; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord
(CD Vivaldi Bach Telemann – Oboe Concertos, Supraphon SU 4188-2, 2015)
Giovanni Battista Somis (1686-1763)
From Sonata for flute solo and violoncello, or harpsichord (Turin 1725 and Paris 1726):
3. Sonata opus 3 III, in g minor
– Adagio
– Allegro
– Allegro
4. Sonata opus 3 XII, in f sharp minor
– Adagio
– Allegro
– Allegro
5. Sonata opus 3 XI, in c sharp minor
– Adagio
– Allegro ma poco
– Allegro
6. Sonata opus 3 X, in D Major
– Adagio/Largo
– Allegro
– Allegro
Wolfram Schurig, recorder’; Johannes Hämmerle, harpsichord
(CD Nostalgia – Giovanni Battista Somis, Fra Bernardo fb 1711192, 2017)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
7. Concerto in d minor for strings and basso Continuo, BWV 1059
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Presto
Ensemble 18+ with the cooperation of Vilém Veverka, oboe; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord
(CD Vivaldi Bach Telemann – Oboe Concertos, Supraphon SU 4188-2, 2015)