Bernhard Päuler

For a long time relegated to the realm of neat utility music, one finds this 'nonchalance', the refinement with which Hoffmeister always knows how to animate the 'conversation' between the musicians a...

Edited from the first edition

Frist Edition

Edited from the first Edition.

Leclair's best-known trio sonata captivates with its grace in the thematic penetration of the upper voices and the partnered singing. Indispensable.

Schaffrath's contemporaries praised 'the beauty and popularity of his works', even extolling them in the same breath as those of Bach, Telemann and Handel. There is something to it ...

Also in this piece belonging to the series of six op. 8 Stamitz offers a tonally strongly contrasting interplay between 2 wind and 2 string parts: finest classical table music!

In the quintet, the instruments are offered solos that always lead to the ripieno theme. The piece is recommended as a chamber music precursor to the 'Sinfonie concertan te'.

The wonderful work dedicated to 'Frau Dr. Clara Schumann' belongs to Naumann's nobly felt, perfectly formed chamber music of classical character. A feast for violists.

The '4 Lieder' of the Swabian Edele breathe a breath of Biedermeil charm. They are masterfully modeled on the romantic-programmatic ideals of their time.

A weighty contribution by cellist Dotzauer to the rare oboe quartet literature. Thanks to its melodic flow and the lightly swinging rondo finale, hardly any wishes remain unfulfilled.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the first edition.

Among the 42 trio sonatas, these 6 occupy a special position: they are equipped with a basso continuo, whereby the basso parts marked 'solo', in which the keyboard instrument is silent, make the 'tran...

The duos of the blind Dulon, at that time 'the first flute traversist of Europe', are among the almost forgotten treasures, in which a bouquet of blossoming melodies and rushing figural play is presen...