In a century in which numerous important French and German composers wrote for two flutes, the six sonatas by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach stand out as the most important, complex and technically demanding works in this repertoire. Since their rediscovery and publication almost a hundred years ago, they have become firmly established in the flute repertoire and are appreciated and performed on both historical and modern instruments. The specialist Peter Wollny regards them as the key work in Friedemann Bach's oeuvre - as a kind of summa of his entire oeuvre, rich in quotations and echoes of earlier works. Following the album with the sonatas by C. P. E. Bach (jpc 11059702), Manuel Granatiero, together with the Italian-Croatian flautist Eleonora Bišćević, now devotes himself to this masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest son. Some 35 years after the first and so far only recording on period instruments (by Barthold Kuijken and Marc Hantaï), this new recording offers a fresh perspective on music of extraordinary brilliance, passion and virtuosity.