Mainer Martín, Carmen / Mur, Violeta / Ara, Enrique Escartín : Mozart Contemporaries: 18th Century Music for Bassoon

This album presents a selection of works by three composers of the same generation: all three were born in the 1750s and wrote music in the European classical style of the 18th century, all three focusing on the bassoon.

Mozart's rarely performed Sonata in B flat major for bassoon and cello, K. 292, is the starting point for the program. The three-movement work was composed around 1775—a year after the Sonata in B flat major, K. 191—when Mozart was not yet twenty years old. Known for its simplicity and beauty, the work was dedicated to Thaddäus Wolfgang von Dürnitz, a music-loving nobleman, amateur composer, and occasional pianist and bassoonist. In the same combination, we hear two of Devienne's duo concertos and three of Von Dürnitz's bassoon sonatas.

Performed by three Spanish soloists, they are passionate about unknown 18th-century chamber music.