Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was a highly esteemed composer mentioned in the same breath as Bach, Telemann, and Handel. Today his name has largely vanished from our concert programs, but not from the cpo catalogue. Stölzel did remarkable things in the field of sacred music, as demonstrated by previous releases on cpo, but the label now presents the composer’s chamber music.

His Quadri di Dresda e Bruxelles for oboe, horn, bassoon, and basso continuo thrives on the Italianate concertante interplay of these instruments and are expertly interpreted by the renowned period ensemble Epoca Barocca.