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The Oboe in Berlin
Xenia Löffler, Michaela Hasselt, Daniel Deuter, Michael Bosch, Györgyi Farkas, Katharina Litschig
The Oboe in Berlin
Xenia Löffler, Michaela Hasselt, Daniel Deuter, Michael Bosch, Györgyi Farkas, Katharina Litschig
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Under the reign of Frederick the Great, Berlin developed into one of the most important centres of the European music scene. He brought the most important composers and musicians to his court and his court orchestra had to play both representative operas and concerts as well as in the king's private sphere.
Although the king himself played the flute and strongly protected his instrument, the oboe was also of great importance and the orchestra featured four outstanding oboists.
Frederick, however, was stuck in a conservative, traditional style and the once "young, wild" Kapellmusiker became increasingly weary of this musical monoculture. Thus a new music scene gradually developed in Berlin in the bourgeois milieu with house concerts and weekly academies.
The "queen of the baroque oboe", as Xenia Loffler was respectfully called by BR Klassik Radio, presents on her new album a fine selection of oboe sonatas from the Berlin repertoire with works by the two Bach sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann, as well as Christoph Schaffrath, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch and Carl Ludwig Matthes.
Contents and tracklist
- Xenia Löffler, Michaela Hasselt
- Xenia Löffler, Daniel Deuter, Michael Bosch, Michaela Hasselt
- Arr. for Oboe, Bassoon & Basson continuo
- Xenia Löffler, Györgyi Farkas, Michaela Hasselt
- Xenia Löffler, Michaela Hasselt
- Xenia Löffler, Daniel Deuter, Michaela Hasselt
- Xenia Löffler, Katharina Litschig, Michaela Hasselt