Benedek Csalog Masterclass & Recital Premiere

The Art of Embellishing: Exploring Slow Movements in Baroque Flute Repertoire

Masterclass & Recital with Benedek Csalog
featuring Gwendolyn Toth – Harpsichord

RECITAL PROGRAM
J.S. Bach Sonata G Major for Violin and Basso Continuo Mvt. 1 - Simplified Version
J.S. Bach Sonata G Major for Violin and Basso Continuo Mvt. 1 - Improvised Ornaments
J.S. Bach Sonata G Major for Violin and Basso Continuo Mvt. 1 - Bach's Original Ornaments
J.S.Bach or C.P.E. Bach Trio in G Major Mvt. 1
J.J. Quantz Adagio C Major from "On Playing The Flute"
J.J. Quantz Adagio C Major from "On Playing The Flute" - Quantz's Original Ornaments
J.S.Bach Sonata E Major Mvt. 1
J.S.Bach Sonata B Minor Mvt. 2
G.Ph.Telemann Fantasia in D Minor
A. Corelli Sonata for violin and basso continuo Op. V.
J. Hotteterre Prelude G Major from "L'art de préluder"
Handel G Major Sonata Mvt. 1
J.S. Bach French Suite No. 6 in E Major - Sarabande
J.S. Bach French Suite No. 6 in E Major - Sarabande - Arranged for Flute
F. Geminiani Sonata Op. 1 no. 10 for violin & basso continuo

MASTERCLASS
Zoe Rabinowitz - Sonata in E Major by J.S. Bach
Nuria Canales Rubio - Suite in G Major by Jacuqes-Martin Hotteterre

BIO
The Hungarian baroque flute player Benedek Csalog was winner of most prestigious early music competitions as the first NFA Baroque Flute Artist Competition and the Musica Antiqua Competition in Brugge, Belgium.

Graduated at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Bart Kuijken.
As a soloist he performs throughout Europe, in the USA, Brazil, Japan and the Middle East, and he has been invited to play as a soloist at important early music festivals, such as Musicora Paris, Stockholm Early Music Festival, Holland Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Innsbruck Festival, St. Petersburg Festival.

He most often performs in the company of a single keyboard player, among others with harpsichordists Léon Berben, Christine Shornsheim, Miklós Spányi and Nicholas Parle, and had iconic artists such as William Christie, Sigiswald Kuijken, Barthold Kuijken or Emma Kirkby as his partners.

Benedek produced 12 CD recordings as soloist including the Complete Flute Sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (label Ramée).

He used to teach baroque flute at the Leipzig Music Academy, Germany and at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music, Poland, and gives master-classes in Europe, Russia, Brazil, Armenia and Japan. Before the war he accepted invitations to teach at the Tchaikovsky Conservatorium and the Gnessin School, Moscow.

In addition to his concert activity in 2019 he started to record the complete flute work of J.J. Quantz (ca. 600 works), and published already several sonatas on the project’ homepage The-Quantz-Project.com. In 2023, the label Brilliant Classics decided to take over the project and publish all the sonatas performed by Benedek. The first CD in the series was released last year and contains 7 sonatas.