Artist : Wilbert Hazelzet, flute- Gerard de Wit, harpsichord
Genre : Baroque, Solo
Release : December 2015
Label: Brilliant Classics
As with any Baroque flute music releases, this CD of six flute sonatas by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is highly appreciated by flute lover. A quick read on the composer, he seems quite established in his era, having noted as composer without a patrons. He earn enough money just by selling his music. He even have a quote, "I'm earning money", when his works being criticized, maybe due to perception that he is mass creating music. Well, as with any other Baroque composer, asked Telemann. With this pre-text, it is curious to see how his music doing. What is the music favored by people of 17th century, is now presented upon us.
The CD recorded by Wilbert Hazelzet as flutist and Gerar de Wit in harpsichord. Reading the flutist bio here, it revealed that the work are in the hand of seasoned flutist. Wilbert is 67 years old flutist specialized in flauto tranverso since 1970s. Here the CD descriptions:
Heres another superb disc of Baroque/galant-style flute sonatas to join the impressive library of such music on Brilliant Classics, most recently enlarged by a release of Johan Helmich Roman, a close contemporary of Boismortier (1689-1755). Whereas Roman worked in the then-distant royal court of Sweden, and had only one collection of music published during his lifetime, Boismortier was known across Europe as both a supreme virtuoso on the flute/recorder family, and a composer for the instrument of a facility and refinement rivalled only by Bach. Whereas Bachs chamber music is intricately worked to display the contrapuntal skill of its creator, Boismortiers sonatas are lighter on their feet, tripping along to the gentle rhythms of French dance-metres, seeking not after profundity but the best kind of entertainment. His Op.91 collection dates from 1742 and expresses an advanced fusion of Italian and French national styles, though tending always towards the French ideal of pleasing the ear rather than striving towards the Italian aim overwhelm, astonish and shock the public with extreme effects. Soothing sweetness, amusing liveliness and caressing tenderness characterize this mixed style, providing good moods and wellbeing to an easy listening audience, then and now. Such distinctions can be appreciated by Wilbert Hazelzet as by few others, for he has worked in the vanguard of historically informed performance movement for many decades alongside such distinguished colleagues as Reinhard Goebel, Ton Koopman and Jaap ter Linden. A new Hazelzet is always to be anticipated, for its technical assurance and enlightened, enlivening musicianship of impeccable taste. Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1789-1755) was a highly successful French composer of instrumental and vocal music, the first independent composer without patron, publisher of his own works (which made him extremely wealthy). Boismortiers flute sonatas are a harmonious blend of the French and Italian style, pleasing to the ear, light-footed and tuneful, aimed to entertain. Excellent performance by Dutch flutist Wilbert Hazelzet, an artist who won his spurs in his collaboration with pioneers Ton Koopman, Reinhard Goebel and Franz Brüggen. He is seconded by Gerard de Wit, one of Hollands excellent harpsichord players of the next generation. - sources
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: 6 Flute Sonatas Op. 91
1 Flute Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 91: I. Rondement
2 Flute Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 91: II. Gayement
3 Flute Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 91: III. Air. Gracieusement
4 Flute Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 91: IV. Gayement
5 Flute Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 91: I. Gayement
6 Flute Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 91: II. Gracieusement
7 Flute Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 91: III. Gayement
8 Flute Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 91: I. Sicilienne
9 Flute Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 91: II. Gayement
10 Flute Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 91: III. Gracieusement
11 Flute Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 91: IV. Gayement
12 Flute Sonata No. 5 in A Major, Op. 91: I. Legerement
13 Flute Sonata No. 5 in A Major, Op. 91: II. Gracieusement
14 Flute Sonata No. 5 in A Major, Op. 91: III. Gayement
15 Flute Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 91: I. Gayement
16 Flute Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 91: II. Gracieusement
17 Flute Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 91: III. Gayement
18 Flute Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, Op. 91: I. Gayement
19 Flute Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, Op. 91: II. Gracieusement
20 Flute Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, Op. 91: III. Menuets I et II
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