Christoph Sobanski

As concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for many decades, violin virtuoso Ferdinand David was a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote his famous Violin Concerto for him. David was...

One of the best-loved trumpet concertos today is actually a horn concerto: Neruda composed it in about 1750 at the Dresden Court, where he met the greatest horn virtuosos of the day. As a result, the...

Thanks to its wealth of invention, elegant workmanship, and technical and musical challenges, Franz Anton Hoffmeister's Concerto 'no. 1' has emerged as the preferred concerto for double bass auditions...

Following Dittersdorf (HN759) and Hoffmeister (HN721), Johann Baptist Vanhal and his sole double-bass concerto add a further highlight to the classical bass literature in our catalogue. The virtuoso w...

El concierto para fagot de Carl Maria von Weber debe su existencia a su estancia en Múnich en 1811, donde obtuvo un gran éxito en la corte como pianista y, sobre todo, como compositor: "Toda la orques...