Winfried Michel

First Edition

First Edition

One of the newly discovered treasures of the Berlin Sing-Academy is the viola sonata in F major by Franz Benda, published here for the first time.

Glinka's viola sonata is unfinished. It is unmistakable that a finale is missing, which closes the arch to the key of the first movement. We opted for the modest and archaizing form of a Russian minue...

First Edition

First Edition

After the first printing edited and piano movement by Winfried Michel[...] These sonatas could really pass into the repertoire of flutists, in order to bring Mozart's spirit also beyond his quartets i...

After the first printing edited and piano movement by Winfried Michel[...] These sonatas could really pass into the repertoire of flutists, in order to bring Mozart's spirit also beyond his quartets i...

Edited from the first edition.

Edited from the first edition.

In the second collection of his sonatas, Blavet proves himself to be a European composer, combining French elements with Italian virtuosity and even seeming to know the type of the dei-movement 'Pruss...

The Sonata quarta could be seen as a homage to Quantz, and the out-composed ornaments in the repetitions of its first movement already hint at the idea of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 'Altered Recapitu...

The realization of the basso continuo attempts to do justice in form and ambition to the impetus and grandeur of these masterpieces of flute literature.

THE AUTOGRAPH: 'The Solfeggi are not a composition in the usual sense but the record, which has happened to survive, of the lessons given by a flute teacher.'

Fragment completed and with a realization of the continuo by Winfried Michel

Legrenzi's polyphonic chamber sonatas are not only captivating because of their contrapuntal facture, they take us into a new age of 'dramatic melody'.

Un Divertimento piccolo per Clavecimbalo, Corno e Violino accompagnato.

The trio from the famous 'Musikalisches Vielerley' captivates with a perfect synthesis of contrapuntal and cantabile writing on a high level with 'still' baroque gesture.