Andrea Oliva, the flautist on this album, is the principal flautist of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Historical Context
During the mid to late Baroque period, the transverse flute gradually emerged, replacing the recorder in the woodwind family.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, in December 2011, and features a Fazioli piano.
Compositional Technique
The Sonata in B minor, BWV1030, is the most extended and ambitious of J.S. Bach's flute sonatas, notable for the freedom given to the keyboard part and its contrapuntal texture.
Composition History
Several sonatas on this album, including BWV1031, BWV1020, and BWV1033, are of disputed authorship and may have been co-written by J.S. Bach and his sons, or even solely by C.P.E. Bach.
Performer Biography
Angela Hewitt, the pianist, is renowned for her award-winning recordings of Bach's keyboard works, described as 'one of the record glories of our age'.
Composer Biography
J.S. Bach introduced the transverse flute into his cantatas only in his second year at Leipzig, having previously used recorders exclusively in his Weimar cantatas.
