Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763) SONATES EN QUATUOR Chamber music for oboes and strings, volume 1 NOTTURNA ACD2 2593 • Notturna is dedicated to the performance of early music written for winds.   The members of the ensemble are distinguished performers who specialize in historical performance of the 18th and 19th centuries.   Notturna draws on the transparency and expressiveness of early wind instruments to paint fresh pictures of unexplored repertoire.   Since its inception the ensemble has felt a unique rapport with the music of Berlin composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, and have taken as part of their mandate to expose his neglected masterworks, many of which have yet to be published and recorded.   This is the first of a two-disc collection. • Christopher Palameta, oboist and artistic director of Notturna, was a core member of Toronto's Tafelmusik for three year before leaving to devote himself to chamber music.   He has also played and recorded with the Aradia Ensemble, Opera Lafeyette, in Washington D. C.; Apollo's Fire, in Cleveland; and Arion, Les Idées heureuses, le Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM), Les Boréades, and Caprice, all in Montréal. • Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763), was born in Silesia (then under Austria, but Prussia from 1742 and now part of Poland) and followed a normal career path for a musician in Mitteleuropa, culminating as contraviolonist in the Royal Orchestra of the Court of Prussia from 1736 until his death in 1763.   Janitsch also composed ballet music for the Royal Court Opera), rehearsed the opera chorus, and composed music for the balls held at the opera house during carnival-time.   Janitsch was also called on to participate in the intimate concerts that took place in the king's private apartments at Sanssouci, alongside a number of instrumentalist-composers including C.Ph.E. Bach and Johann Joachim Quantz. • Produced and recoded by Anne-Marie Sylvestre at the Church of Saint-Augustin de Mirabel, (Québec) Canada, 1-3 March 2008. NOTTURNA Christopher Palameta, oboe & oboe d'amour, artistic director Stephen Bard, oboe • Mika Putterman, traverso Hélène Plouffe, violin, viola • Kathleen Kajioka, viola Karen Kaderavek, cello • Erin Helyard, clavecin   1. -   4. Sonata da camera en sol mineur | in G minor «O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden» POUR HAUTBOIS, VIOLON, ALTO ET BASSE | OBOE, VIOLIN, VIOLA AND CONTINUO   5. -   7. Sonata da camera en do mineur | in C minor, op. 5* POUR DEUX HAUTBOIS, ALTO ET BASSE | TWO OBOES, VIOL AND CONTINUO   8. - 10. Sonata da camera en do majeur | in C major, op. 4 POUR TRAVERSO, DEUX HAUTBOIS ET BASSE | TRAVERSO, TWO OBOES AND CONTINUO 11. - 13. Sonata da camera en mi mineur | in E major, op. 5B * POUR HAUTBOIS D'AMOUR, DEUX ALTOS ET BASSE | OBOE D'AMORE, TWO VIOLAS AND CONTINUO 14. - 16. Sonata da camera en la mineur | in A minor, op. 5A* POUR TRAVERSO, HAUTBOIS, HAUTBOIS D'AMOUR ET BASSE | TRAVERSO, OBOE, OBOE D'AMORE AND CONTINUO               * Premier enregistrement mondial | World Premiere Recording ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879