Flute and Oboe Quartets

Court life in 17th and 18th century Germany provided a rich cultural climate: the countless Princes and Dukes competed each other in maintaining court orchestras of the highest caliber, fighting for the best musicians and composers. Both composers on this CD, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Melchior Molter, held the post of Kapellmeister at the court of Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Eisenach, Molter being the successor of his illustrious colleague Telemann. The works presented here are Sonatas and Concertos a Quattro, chamber music for flute or oboe, violin, viola and basso continuo: music aimed to entertain the connoisseur, a happy blend of intellectual challenge and pure delight. The Camerata Bachiensis play on historical instruments, its leader Roberto de Franceschi playing both flute and oboe. They perform at all

important Early Music Festivals, they won the 2013 Telemann Competition in Magdeburg, and are Ensemble-in-Residence in the Bach Museum Leipzig.