Markus Bronnimann; Jean Halsdorf; Leon Berben; Ensemble Pyramide - Bachs, Benda and Bronnimann: Music for Flute

Four of the composers on this recording met in real life ? in Potsdam, in spring 1747. In this album they are reunited, joined by the flautist-composer who brings their encounter to life once more, the Swiss-born Markus Bronnimann. The stylistic contrasts between works three centuries apart serve to accentuate their strengths, the formal elegance of the earlier pieces underlining the expressive liberty of the recent ones. Bronnimann combines the two worlds with his luminous arrangement of one of the best-known of all classical compositions: Bach?s Toccata and Fugue in D minor.