The Virtuoso Recorder - Fasch, Schickhardt, Graupner, Stulick - koncerty niemieckiego baroku

Cappella Academica Frankfurt;
Schneider, Michael

CPO 777 534-2

The above heading may produce an unintentionally comic effect: the recorder, the baroque instrument par excellence, seems to be far from the pathos of triumph. But once you listen to our world-premiere release of Johann Friedrich Fasch's recently rediscovered Concerto in F major with Michael Schneider, you'll agree that this is indeed a superlative victory. At present Schneider cannot be topped on the recorder – worldwide. In his hands the recorder completely transcends everything that so often makes it seem an instrument of limited expressive capacity and becomes a voice for which all facets are possible. What is more, the Fasch concerto's extremely high technical demands even render the listener breathless. Schneider has joined other new discoveries to Fasch: concertos by Graupner, Schickhardt, Schultze, and Scheibe. Apart from Telemann's numerous such compositions, we now have before us almost the complete repertoire of recorder concertos from the German stylistic domain.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

CPO

24-06-2010

761203753420