Margarita Hohenrieder - Piano Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This new gives us a small impression of what was played for entertainment in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in the houses of London's high society. The variety of the programme ranges from typical British melancholy to ostinato melodies by Nicola Matteis, an Italian violinist who, like Handel, who is also represented here, enriched the musical life on the Thames as a musical guest worker and Englishman of choice, to the exuberance of the 'Ayres'. The famous baroque violinist Amandine Beyer and the recorder player Michael Oman are supported by the ABC - Austrian Baroque Company.

?Two World Premiere Recordings are making this unusual album very attractive, not only for friends of French horn; the sounds and sound combinations are thrilling. Perfectly high caliber the artist crew Premysl Vojta is one of the leading French horn player in Europe; Florence Millet is very much part of the contemporary music scene, giving master-classes and organising festivals; Ye Wu is Primaria in the Symphony orchestra of the WDR.

At the end of his life, J.S. Bach, a living legend at the pinnacle of his art, met the music-loving, InchenlightenedInch King Frederick who was to present him with the Royal Theme. This gift would immediately arouse Bach's prodigious creativity, and within the space of a season he would go on to compose a labyrinthine work in which beauty, complexity and seduction are united in a work of unique intensity. The Musical Offering is both a challenge and a gift, to musicians and to all music-lovers