Carmen Mainer Martin

Mozart Contemporaries: 18th Century Music for Bassoon Carmen Mainer Martin

This album presents a selection of works written by three composers of the same generation: all three were born in the 1750s and wrote music in the Classical idiom of eighteenth-century Europe, all three centred around the bassoon.

Mozart is the starting point of the program with his rarely performed Sonata for bassoon and cello in B flat, KV 292. Cast in three movements, it was written in around 1775 - a year after the Bassoon Concerto in B flat, KV 191 - when Mozart was not yet twenty. Notable for its sheer simplicity and beauty, it was dedicated to the music-loving nobleman Thaddäus Wolfgang von Dürnitz, an amateur composer and occasional pianist and bassoonist. For the same combination we hear two Duo-Concertantes by Devienne, and three bassoon sonatas by Von Dürtnitz.

Played by three Spanish soloists sharing a passion for unknown chamber music from the 18th century.