Xenia Löffler - The Oboe in Berlin (2021)

Tracklist

01. Oboe Sonata in G Minor, Wq. 135: I. Adagio
02. Oboe Sonata in G Minor, Wq. 135: II. Allegro
03. Oboe Sonata in G Minor, Wq. 135: III. Vivace
04. Quartet for 2 Oboes, Violin & Basso continuo in E-Flat Major, CSWV D:6: I. Allegro
05. Quartet for 2 Oboes, Violin & Basso continuo in E-Flat Major, CSWV D:6: II. Largo
06. Quartet for 2 Oboes, Violin & Basso continuo in E-Flat Major, CSWV D:6: III. Allegro
07. Sinfonia in A Major, F. 70 (Arr. for Oboe, Bassoon & Basson continuo): II. Siciliano
08. Oboe Sonata in E-Flat Major: I. Allegro
09. Oboe Sonata in E-Flat Major: II. Adagio
10. Oboe Sonata in E-Flat Major: III. Allegretto
11. Sonata da camera for Oboe, Violin & Basso continuo in B-Flat Minor, D-B:M. Th. 148: I. Larghetto
12. Sonata da camera for Oboe, Violin & Basso continuo in B-Flat Minor, D-B:M. Th. 148: II. Allegretto
13. Sonata da camera for Oboe, Violin & Basso continuo in B-Flat Minor, D-B:M. Th. 148: III. Vivace
14. Trio Sonata for Oboe da caccia, Violoncello piccolo & Basso continuo in F Major, Wq. 163: I. Un poco andante
15. Trio Sonata for Oboe da caccia, Violoncello piccolo & Basso continuo in F Major, Wq. 163: II. Allegretto
16. Trio Sonata for Oboe da caccia, Violoncello piccolo & Basso continuo in F Major, Wq. 163: III. Allegro



Under the reign of Frederick the Great, Berlin developed into one of the most important centres of the European music scene. He brought the most important composers and musicians to his court and his court orchestra had to play both representative operas and concerts as well as in the king's private sphere.

Although the king himself played the flute and strongly protected his instrument, the oboe was also of great importance and the orchestra featured four outstanding oboists.

Frederick, however, was stuck in a conservative, traditional style and the once "young, wild" Kapellmusiker became increasingly weary of this musical monoculture. Thus a new music scene gradually developed in Berlin in the bourgeois milieu with house concerts and weekly academies.

The "queen of the baroque oboe", as Xenia Loffler was respectfully called by BR Klassik Radio, presents on her new album a fine selection of oboe sonatas from the Berlin repertoire with works by the two Bach sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann, as well as Christoph Schaffrath, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch and Carl Ludwig Matthes.

DOWNLOAD ALBUM [flac]