Friedrich der Grosse – Music for the Berlin Court – Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

remembering Frederick the Great (Friedrich der Große) on the anniversary of his death

(24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786)

Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703-1771):
Overture and Allegro in D minor
Christoph Nichelmann (1717-1762):
Concerto per il Cembalo concertante in C minor
Friedrich der Grosse (1712-1786):
Sonata for Flute and B.C. in C minor
Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703-1771):
Sonata per il Viola da Gamba concertata in A minor
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788):
Sinfonia No.1 Wq 183, 1 in D major

Raphael Alpermann - fortepiano
Christoph Huntgeburth - flute
Jan Freiheit - viola da gamba
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [on period instruments]

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Musik am Preussischen Hof - 3. Arien aus der Berliner Operngeschichte

Opera Arias from:
Carl Heinrich Graun (1701-1759)
Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Friederich II von Preussen (1712-1786)
Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720-1774)

Jochen Kowalski - countertenor
Kammerorchester Berlin
Max Pommer - conductor

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Musik am Preussischen Hof - 2. Berliner Komponisten des 18. Jahrhunderts

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788):
Sinfonia No.3 in C major *
Friederich II von Preussen (1712-1786):
Concerto for Flute, Strings and B.C. No.4 in D major +
Ernst Eichner (1740-1777):
Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in D major, op.9 #

Bernd Casper - harpsichord *
Richard Waage - flute +
Marion Hofmann - harp #

Kammerorchester des Berliner Sinfonie-Orchesters
Hans-Peter Frank - conductor

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Friederich II - Flute Concerto, Sinfonie - Kaniowska

"In May 1740, an Austrian ambassador in Berlin wrote about the newly-elected Frederick II (1712-1786): "He is a poet capable of writing hundreds of verses in an hour. He could also be a musician, a philosopher, or a mechanic. But he will not certainly be a good leader or warrior". The future showed that the diplomat's opinion was ironically right and wrong at the same time. The fact attests to the greatly equivocal, complex, and conflicting nature of the "lonely man from Sanssouci". (...) music, apart from literature and philosophy, was positively Frederick II's greatest passion since his early childhood. (...) In its writing, Frederick is a true child of the Rococo style(...) we can perceive in his music a virtual mixture of styles. Besides the Italian cantabile in melody, there is also the French clarity of construction, with certain tendencies to periodicity. At the same time, there is a typical North German treatment of harmony and choice of means of initiating and developing themes that stems from polyphony.(...)"

[Danilo Prefumo in the booklet]

Friederich II (1712-1786):
Sinfonia No.4 in A major for String Orchestra and Basso continuo
Concerto No.3 in C major for Flute, String Orchestra and Basso continuo
Sinfonia No.3 in D major for String Orchestra and Basso continuo
Sinfonia No.1 in G major for String Orchestra and Basso continuo

Grażyna Jursza - flute
Chamber Orchestra Camerata Impuls
Malgorzata Kaniowska - conductor

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