The present edition of Fasch's C major bassoon sonata is closely based on a contemporary copy owned by the Fuerstenberg Herdringen Library in Arnsberg in the Federal Republic of Germany. In compiling...
In anticipation of changing tastes, Fasch also gives free rein to the elaboration of melodic ideas in this sonata out of canonic rigor: in the process, he becomes one of the decisive pioneers of the n...
First Edition
Faschs instrumental pieces reveal an outstanding master of counterpoint; still rooted in the baroque tradition, they are however works of transition that, without renouncing polyphonic writing, prefig...
