Ensemble Marsyas
ZELENKA SONATAS
The ensemble’s debut disc of Zelenka Sonatas is scheduled for release by Linn Records in Autumn 2012.
Ensemble Marsyas has recorded three of the extraordinary trio sonatas by the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) for violin, two oboes, bassoon and continuo on period instruments. These sonatas represent the most spectacularly challenging music ever written for wind instruments in terms of their utopian demands on the technique of the players, their musical integrity and their breathtaking scale.
SAMPLE PROGRAMME DETAILS
VIRTUOSO MUSIC FOR THE DRESDEN COURT
Zelenka, Sonata VI for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo ZWV 181/6
Weiß, Sonata for Lute No.4
Fasch, Sonata for bassoon and basso continuo
Interval
Handel Trio in F, for oboe, bassoon and continuo
Bach, French Suite for harpsichord No. 2, BWV 813
Zelenka, Sonata V for 2 oboes, basson and continuo ZWV 181/5
BAND OF BROTHERS
Music from the families of virtuoso wind players who inspired the great baroque masters
Hotteterre, Suite for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo
Giovanni Alberto Ristori, Sonata per l'accompanamento
Pla brothers, Trio in F, for 2 oboes and continuo
Interval
Besozzi brothers, Sonata for bassoon and continuo
Vivaldi, Sonata for 2 oboes and continuo
Sammartini, Sonata for Harpsichord
Fasch, Quadro for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo
MOZART/BEETHOVEN
Mozart, Quintet for fortepiano and winds K 452
Mozart, Sonata for fortepiano
Interval
Beethoven, Quintet for fortepiano and winds, Op.16