MUSIC FROM BERLIN CASTLES - 5 CD Set

Music From Berlin Castles

5 CD Set

The many castles in and around Berlin used to be the splendid centre of musical activities in courtly times. The nobility was very interested in engaging the most important composers and musicians to come to Prussia. Thus, we find musical treasures on these five CDs as they were performed at Sanssouci, Charlottenburg or Rheinsberg Castle. The Berliner Barock-compagney plays on historical instruments.

CD 1 - Music from Sanssouci
Johann Gottlieb Graun: Overture in D minor;
Friedrich II "Der Grosse" - Concerto in C major
Franz Benda - Sonata in E flat major
Johann Joachim Quantz - Concerto in D major No. 116
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Orchestral Symphony in D major

CD 2 - Evening Concerts at the Rheinsberg Castle
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Triosonate in G major
Christoph Schaffrath - Sonata in D minor
Georg Czarth - Sonata II in C major
Johann Gottlieb Graun - Sonata in G major

CD 3 - Music From Charlottenburg Castle
Arcangelo Corelli - Sonata a quatro in G minor
Attilio Ariosti - La Rosa Cantata
Giuseppe Torelli - Sonata in G major, Opus 1 Nr. (1686
Giovanni Bononcini - Poliferno Opera
Giuseppe Torelli - Concerto a quatro in D minor, Opus 6 Nr.10 (1698)
Agostino Steffani - Scherzo Guardati, etc.

CD 4 - Marches and Wind Music from the Royal Private Library of the Berlin Palace
Philippine Charlotte - Prinzessin von Preussen
Anna Amalie - Prinzessin von Preussen
Johann Christian Bach, Gaetano Donizetti, Wolfgang
Adadeus Mozart, Carl Stamtz, Francois Joseph Gossec,
Carl Maria Von Weber, Gioachhino Rossini

CD 5 - Incidental Music for the Potsdam Theatre
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Antigone Opus 55
Odipus in Kolonos Opus 93