Domenico Maria Dreyer: Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo Isaac Makhdoomi & Sebastian Bausch

• Domenico Maria Dreyer (1680 - 1740): Sonata Prima in G minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 1 Dreyer: Sonata Prima in G minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. Adagio sostenuto, à tempo: cantabile 01:36
• 2 Dreyer: Sonata Prima in G minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Allegro 01:40
• 3 Dreyer: Sonata Prima in G minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Adagio 03:41
• 4 Dreyer: Sonata Prima in G minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: IV. Allegro 02:16
• Sonata Seconda in C major for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 5 Dreyer: Sonata Seconda in C major for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. [Andante] 02:04
• 6 Dreyer: Sonata Seconda in C major for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Allegro 02:38
• 7 Dreyer: Sonata Seconda in C major for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Adagio 03:06
• 8 Dreyer: Sonata Seconda in C major for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: IV. Giga 02:18
• Sonata Terza in G major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 9 Dreyer: Sonata Terza in G major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. Grave 01:44
• 10 Dreyer: Sonata Terza in G major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Allegro cantabile 02:24
• 11 Dreyer: Sonata Terza in G major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Grave 01:34
• 12 Dreyer: Sonata Terza in G major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: IV. Allegro assai 01:38
• Sonata Quarta in D minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 13 Dreyer: Sonata Quarta in D minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. Adagio cantabile 01:09
• 14 Dreyer: Sonata Quarta in D minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Affetuoso 04:14
• 15 Dreyer: Sonata Quarta in D minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Largo 03:04
• 16 Dreyer: Sonata Quarta in D minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: IV. Allegro assai 02:07
• Sonata Quinta in G minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 17 Dreyer: Sonata Quinta in G minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. Largo e cantabile 02:16
• 18 Dreyer: Sonata Quinta in G minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Allegro 01:16
• 19 Dreyer: Sonata Quinta in G minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Largo 01:46
• 20 Dreyer: Sonata Quinta in G minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: IV. Giga. Allegro 02:10
• Sonata Sesta in A minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 21 Dreyer: Sonata Sesta in A minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. Adagio 01:35
• 22 Dreyer: Sonata Sesta in A minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Allegro 01:51
• 23 Dreyer: Sonata Sesta in A minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Siciliana 03:51
• 24 Dreyer: Sonata Sesta in A minor for Soprano Recorder and Basso Continuo: IV. Allegro 02:08
• Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 25 Dreyer: Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. Allegro 02:07
• 26 Dreyer: Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Largo 03:45
• 27 Dreyer: Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Giga 01:00
• Sonata in A minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo:
• 28 Dreyer: Sonata in A minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: I. Allegro 03:18
• 29 Dreyer: Sonata in A minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: II. Adagio 02:31
• 30 Dreyer: Sonata in A minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo: III. Giga 01:43
• Total Runtime 01:08:30

Info for Domenico Maria Dreyer: Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo

A veritable discovery from the Italian High Baroque. The flute sonatas by Domenico Maria Dreyer, a contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi. The Swiss recorder player with an Indian background Isaac Makhdoomi interprets them together with Sebastian Bausch on the harpsichord. In this integral compilation, the works are recorded on an album for the first time.

Very little information has survived about Domenico Maria Dreyer. His life is closely linked to that of his younger brother, Giovanni Filippo Dreyer, a castrato, impresario and composer of operas. Both were active for a long time at the courts of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and later in Italy.

Only six oboe sonatas and two recorder sonatas have survived from Dreyer's oeuvre. The oboe sonatas are eminently suitable for adaptation on the alto or soprano recorder. This was quite common in the Baroque period, when works for wind instruments were repeatedly performed on the violin or on instruments from the same family.

Dreyer's sonatas are of great musical beauty and stylistically belong to the Venetian High Baroque. It is assumed that they were composed around 1725. Dreyer's teacher could be Ludovico Erdmann, a famous oboist who was active in Florence and Venice, where he also had contact with Antonio Vivaldi. This in turn suggests that Dreyer knew the works of the Italian and even consciously adopted Vivaldi's idiom in his sonatas. In addition, it can certainly be assumed that Dreyer also had contact with the greatest oboist of the time, Giuseppe Sammartini, and that Sammartini's music also left its mark on Dreyer's works.

Isaac Makhdoomi, recorder
Sebastian Bausch, harpsichord

Isaac Makhdoomi
comes from an Indian-Swiss family and grew up in the Basel area. As a child of two worlds, he enjoyed, both culturally and musically, a diverse and experiential childhood that gave him an open ear for a wide variety of influences. As a classically trained musician and experimental improviser, he manages to implement these diverse suggestions with passion and success.

From 2005 to 2012 he studied recorder in the master classes of Kees Boeke and Maurice Steger at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Isaac Makhdoomi enjoys playing as a soloist or in chamber music ensembles. His repertoire consists mainly of pieces from the early to late Baroque period, but he is also very familiar with older Renaissance literature and contemporary pieces. As an improvising recorder player, it is a great concern for him to be able to present his instrument in its colorful variety of sounds and great flexibility. Since 2013 he has been doing this with jazz pianist Andreas Svarc, among others, with whom he plays his own compositions under the name "Sangit Saathi", which can be stylistically classified in the area of crossover. In 2016, he released his first album of original compositions together with him under the title Changing Moments.

In 2015, the CD recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with the Brandenburg State Orchestra conducted by Howard Griffiths was released. Isaac Makhdoomi was privileged to serve as principal recorder for this recording.

In 2021, Isaac Makhdoomi released a beautiful CD on the Prospero Classical label featuring the complete sonatas of the largely unknown Domenico Maria Dreyer. This album was co-produced with SRF 2 Kultur and was enthusiastically acclaimed by the specialist press.

In 2022 Makhdoomi was nominated for an Opus Klassik in the category "Artist of the Year".

In spring, the new CD Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per Flauto e Arie will be released by Prospero Clasical. Makhdoomi was accompanied by his ensemble Piccante, which he founded in 2018.

Having completed a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy in addition to a Master Performance, Isaac Makhdoomi has been teaching recorder with great dedication and commitment at a music school in the Baden area of the Canton of Aargau since 2013. He is also a composer for recorder and has published his own works with Heinrichshofen and Edition Tre Fontane.

Sebastian Bausch
earned master's degrees in harpsichord and organ (with distinction) through studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis between 2005 and 2012. In addition, he studied modern piano at the Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau. Great experience with historical performance practice combined with a pianistic education enabled him to intensively deal with historical piano instruments of the 18th and 19th century. He performs regularly as a soloist and in ensembles and has won prizes at several international competitions. Since 2012 he has been a collaborator in the SNSF research project "Bringing the idea of the composer to life" at the Bern University of the Arts.

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