Convention and Revolt – The youngest composer on this recording is just barely eight years old, the oldest over sixty. When Joseph Haydn wrote a Sonata for violin and piano in Vienna or London in the early 1790s, the only one in his huge oeuvre, the castle in Versailles – in which thirty years earlier the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a true wunderkind, surpassed all expectations – was merely a plundered shell. Even Mozart’s Sonata in G Major (K. 9) went beyond the conventional models of the time. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach already composed for violin and harpsichord under the supervision of his father. Among the works on this programme, his music is informed by the gallant style of the court of Potsdam. Ulla Bundies and Taiji Takata appeared together for the ‘first time in 2009 in Japan, performing since then as a duo. Violinist Ulla Bundies has been musical advisor of the Telemann Chamber Orchestra in Osaka since 2010, and Taiji Takata studied in Germany with Christine Schornsheim and Andreas Staier.