Album: JF Fasch & CFC Fasch, Concerti and Overtures, (DHM)

If you have heard of Johann Friedrich Fasch, chances are you'll have heard of him from an oboist. Three years younger than Bach and Handel, Fasch was a self-taught violinist, composer and keyboard player.

Oboists Alfredo Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi and bassoonist Alberto Grazzi share the spotlight with trumpeter Gabriele Cassone in this attractive programme of Fasch's genial, Telemannesque Overtures and Concertos. Sadly, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch's banal Triple Concerto in E doesn't match his father's high standards.