Grzegorz Olkiewicz - Grzegorz Olkiewicz plays Baroque Flute Sonatas [CD]

Cat. no: DUX1990
Format: CD
Barcode: 5902547019901
Release Date: 12 Jan 2024
Genre: Classical

The CD contains archival recordings made for Polish Radio in 1983-84

This is yet another album presenting the achievements of outstanding Polish fautist Grzegorz Olkiewicz, a versatile soloist and chamber musician with an extremely rich repertoire. He recorded Baroque fute sonatas together with two other excellent artists, cellist Andrzej Bauer and pianist Waldemar Malicki - this time at the harpsichord. The musicians formed the Polish Trio in 1982-88, giving numerous concerts and making many archival recordings.

The works included on the album show a different approach of three masters of the Baroque - Bach, Handel and Telemann - to the fute sonata. The presented masterpieces of the genre comprise imaginatively led voices of individual instruments, contrasts of tempi and moods, masterful polyphony and virtuoso fgurations. The musicians play contemporary instruments in a twentieth-century tune while obtaining the effect of Baroque lightness and improvisation.

Tracks: Georg Friedrich Handel: Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 1, HWV 360: I. Larghetto / II. Andante / III. Adagio / IV. Presto / Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 1, HWV 359b: I. Grave / II. Allegro / IV. Allegro / Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No. 1 in C major, BWV 1033: I. Andante - Presto / IV. Menuetto I - Menuetto II / Sonata No. 2 in E minor, BWV 1034: I. Adagio ma non tanto / III. Andante / Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata in B minor, TWV 41:h4: I. Cantabile / III. Dolce

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