Schreyfogel, Schaffrath & Visconti: Chamber Music

Featuring

Martyna Pastuszka
Marcin Świątkiewicz
{oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna
Johan Friedrich Schreyfogel
Christoph Schaffrath

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Performer Biography

Martyna Pastuszka, the concertmaster and artistic director of {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna, is also a lecturer of baroque violin at the Academy of Music in Katowice and Brno.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, Poland, in November 2014.

Album & Artwork

The album's compositions, despite their stylistic differences, are linked by their presence in the private library of Johann Georg Pisendel, a prominent 18th-century Dresden Kapellmeister.

Composition History

The works of Johann Friedrich Schreyfogel were preserved because Johann Georg Pisendel, a Kapellmeister, personally copied them into his library, as transcription was the only way to save them.

Compositional Technique

The composer Johann Friedrich Schreyfogel often gives the soloist the 'last word' in his concertos, ending movements with a solo coda rather than a full orchestral ritornello.

Composer Biography

Johann Friedrich Schreyfogel, whose works are featured, is known only through his compositions and the fact that he was a violinist, with no other source texts mentioning him.

Performer Biography

Marcin Świątkiewicz, the harpsichordist, is a prominent Polish harpsichordist who also specializes in historical keyboard instruments, improvisation, and composition.