Francesco Mancini's output includes 29 operas, oratorios, more than 200 secular cantatas, and instrumental music, often written for flute, cello, and continuo. Here, the sonatas are interpreted by oboe and organ; they are part of a series of 12 sonatas originally dedicated to the English Consul of Naples, John Fleetwood.

Louis Vierne (October 1870 - June 1937) will go down to posterity mainly as an organist, although he could have made a name for himself in every domain with the sole exception of the theatre. Born nearly blind, in 1880 he heard Franck for the first time at St. Clotilde and was later accepted by him as a private pupil. While at the Institute for Young Blind Children, he studied piano, organ, and violin, which benefitted his chamber music production. It was during his 1750th concert, when he had just played "Tombstone for a Dead Child," that he was struck down by a cardiac embolism in the organ loft of Notre Dame. Featured Artist Jean Dub�: piano