With the accession of Frederick III. Of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and his wife Wilhelmina of Prussia (the sister of Frederick the Great) began a brief cultural flowering of the small principality. As well as enthusiastic talented musician could from 1734 with Johann Pfeiffer (1697-1761) an outstanding man bind to their court, whose music has been so far observed by posterity only because little because many of his works are lost or lost today. Fortunately, in the famous "Dresdner Schranck II" and receive copies of his works in other libraries that are now gradually seen. The selection of Batzdorfer Hofkapelle for Accent (two overtures, two concerts and a sonata) makes an unjustly neglected composers of the late baroque attentive, who knew how to integrate modern Italian elements in his music.

The Old Testament narrative of Susanna is a popular motif in the domain of art history. Many portrayals of Susanna being watched by two lusting elders as she bathes exist. Likewise, the scene of the supposed adulteress appearing before the judges who seal her fate and sentence her to death inspired such painters as Rembrandt, Giorgione, Gentileschi, and Corinth. After the patriotic ‘victory oratorios’, the oratorio Susanna marks a turning point in Handel’s composition. In adopting this as his subject, Handel chose a heroine who is neither a queen nor a prophet. The piquant account from the Book of Daniel drew from him magnificent inventiveness in the music, which also includes passages in the lighter vein characteristic of the English ‘ballad opera’ popular at the time. Susanna’s virtue, however, is extolled in monumental choruses. The present live recording is a production of the 2016 International Handel Festival in Gottingen, highly praised by the critics at their performances in Gottingen, Berlin, and Wroclaw. With Laurence Cummings, the Festival’s Artistic Director, a renowned Handel specialist stands at the helm of the Gottingen Festival Orchestra, assisted by an excellent vocal cast and the NDR Choir.

By Johann Bernhard Bach orchestral works has unfortunately received nothing but four orchestral suites. The fact that we can hear these suites today, we owe to the appreciation that had for them Johann Sebastian Bach. Der Vetter aus Leipzig copied them namely that time for concerts with the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. The Bach Concentus newly founded under it's founder Ewald Demeyere has provided three kind contributions by Telemann over for his first recording on the label ACCENT these four suites.

Handel: Siroe / Cummings, Dennis, Adjei, Zamojska, Giovannini, Release Date: 06/10/2014, Composer: George Frideric Handel, Performer: Anna Dennis, Yosemeh Adjei, Aleksandra Zamojska, Antonio Giovannini, Conductor: Laurence Cummings, Orchestra/Ensemble: Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Number of Discs: 3. Live recording from the G�ttingen International H�ndel Festival 2013 Betrayal, revenge, inheritance conflicts and forbidden love at the Persian court - in 1728 this explosive mixture inspired Handel to compose the successful opera Siroe, Re di Persia, one of his last compositions for the Royal Academy of Music at the King's Theatre. Handel based his work on the libretto by the famous poet Pietro Metastasio. In it's first season Siroe was performed on 18 successive evenings, but it was never subsequently revived in Handel's lifetime. The opera received it's first performance in G�ttingen with a top-rank cast performing under the musical direction of Laurence Cummings. The Financial Times wrote about the premiere: "This is new artistic director Laurence Cummings' first opera in G�ttingen, and it must count as a high point in the festival's history... Cummings hits every tempo bang in the middle, so that phrases are light and airy, architecture is solid yet soaring, recitatives feel like free speech, and it is often hard not to stand up and dance. His orchestra is superb. This is both musical discovery and pure joy; this is how Handel should be." The live recording will be the only available release on CD of Handel's "Siroe" at the time. It is the beginning of a new cooperation between the Label Accent and the G�ttingen International H�ndel Festival which plans the release of a series with opera productions on CD.

Accent launches the first complete recording of all works for piano and violin on period instruments. Some are now probably trim for the order "Piano and Violin", but even if Beethoven's ten violin sonatas mark the final turning point towards an equality of the two instruments, they are still expressly designated as "Sonatas for Piano and Violin" by the composer. Make a start with the sonatas Op.47 and Op.96 two summits works of chamber music for violin, their interpretation is a real challenge not only on historical instruments. For their complete recording Linda Nicholson and Hiro Kurosaki use the way not only the right historic Viennese instruments, for the Kreutzer Sonata Op.47 Kurosaki has inserted at the secured sites also own cadenzas as the George Bridge Tower, the original dedicatee of the Sonata in premiere did. The first complete recording on period instruments is thus set at the outset standards in it's category.

Rome - Paris - Madrid - European Baroque Guitar Music Import, Pierre Pitzl - More or less 'invented' in Spain in the mid-17th century, it did not take long for the guitar to start it's triumphal march through all of Europe. On this recording, guitarist Pierre Pitzl, on his first solo CD for Accent, explores this development in exemplary fashion, using the examples of three musical centers and composers active there: Granata and Bartolotti in Rome, de Visee and Corbetta in Paris as well as Sanz and Gerau in Madrid. The image resulting from this is a highly varied one: only a strummed instrument in the beginning, the guitar soon developed a highly differentiated technique consisting of both strumming and plucking. In this way, a new style of composition and sound was created hand in hand with a previously unheard-of, bold treatment of dissonances. Pitzl plays all of the selections with impressive bravura.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Concertos For Various Instruments, Bach / Winne / Balssa / Ponseele / II Gardellino, Release Date: 04/08/2014. Composer: Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Performer: Emmanuel Balssa, Marcel Ponseele, Orchestra/Ensemble: Il Gardellino, Number of Discs: 1. When people spoke of the 'great Bach' during the 18th century, they were not referring to Johann Sebastian but to his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, one of the chief representatives of the Empfindsamer Stil (Sensitive Style). He was in the service of Frederick the Great for over 30 years as harpsichordist and chamber musician. Bach's compositions, however, were not particularly appreciated at the rather conservative court - the works of Quantz or the Graun brothers met with greater favor there. Thus Bach composed primarily for the academies in the considerably more open-minded Berlin salons of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Although works for keyboard instruments are the main focus of his production, over the course of his long career he also wrote more than 50 instrumental concertos in which the entire expressive range of his original music can also be clearly perceived. Just in time for the composer's 300th birthday, Il gardellino is presenting a small selection of these on this CD. Alongside the Cello Concerto, H. 432 and the Oboe Concerto, H.466, we can also hear the Flute Concerto, H.482/1, a work that was rediscovered in Kiev as recently as 2001.

Michael Haydn: Divertimenti, Haydn / Sensi / Piccolo Concerto Wien, Release Date: 08/12/2014. Composer: Michael Haydn, Orchestra/Ensemble: Piccolo Concerto Wien, Number of Discs: 1. Joseph Haydn's younger brother Michael (1737-1806) was also a highly esteemed composer during his lifetime; his works were admired by Schubert and Mozart. The life journeys of the two Haydn's ran almost parallel to each other during their early years: both were choirboys at St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna and were educated by the Kapellmeister there, Georg Reutter The Younger. After six years in Gro�wardein with Bishop Adam Patacsics, Michael Haydn was taken by Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach to Salzburg, where he was appointed court composer in 1763. Michael Haydn worked in Salzburg for 43 years, composing numerous sacred and secular works; these were not printed, however, which is the reason why they are not as well known as those of his famous brother. The Divertimenti recorded here are written for either a quartet or a trio - but not, however, in the later customary ensemble of one or two violins, viola and violoncello. Their varied instrumental colors give them a special attraction: alongside the string instruments just named, one can hear the English horn, oboe, violoncello piccolo and violone in variable combinations.

Accent's acclaimed Cantata series featuring Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande concludes with volume eighteen. The disc offers works for the twenty-sixth Sunday after Trinity, the sixth Sunday after Trinity and Palm Sunday. Kuijken's cycle is notable for it's use of solo voices in place of a choir. Once highly controversial, this approach has gained traction in some musicological circles. Regardless of authenticity, the superb performances in this series deserve a wide audience and shed new light on familiar territory. Accent's Super Audio recordings also give the music an added depth and clarity not possible on a standard compact disc.

As a holiday paradise you will certainly not bring the Canary Islands so readily with historic organs in connection, but can be made here some unexpected discoveries. Before the advent of mass tourism, the poor communities were there namely often afford modernizing their organs, to say nothing of new acquisitions and quite so numerous historic instruments have received with some charming regional characteristics that Liuwe Tamminga before us here. This is related to the Canario the dance in the musical center, which has made the name of the island early famous - but of course the popular canary meets us on this album

Telemann: Concertos & Suites, Telemann / Coen / La Petite Bande, Release Date: 09/09/2014, Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann, Performer: Bart Coen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken, Orchestra/Ensemble: La Petite Bande, Number of Discs: 1. Given the frequency of performances and recordings of his music today, it is hard to imagine that prior to 1970, Telemann's music was not held in high esteem. It is thanks to the pioneering work of groups like La Petite Bande that listeners today can enjoy the rich bounty of Telemann's music. This recording of a varied selection of his concertos and suites with recorder features soloist Bart Coen.

Only gradually will the ensemble also French music before Louis XIV. Opened, this sounded already on his father Louis XIII Courtyard. and his wife Anna of Austria excellent music, such as this album proves. Pierre Pitzl and his ensemble Private Musicke offer us an overview of this repertoire, the vocal works designed very exquisite in which Stephan van Dyck.

Gradually artists also deal with the musicians who were part of the environment Handel in London. Among them was that of Quantz and Burney so highly regarded Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750), who worked in London since 1728 as oboe virtuoso and composer, but at times also played in the opera orchestra Handel. Of his contemporaries Sammartini was touted as the best oboist Europe. There are strong indications that he, as it was then not uncommon at an early age and flute ("German Flute") played and was therefore well equipped to meet the rampant Traversfl�te fashion in London of the 1730s. The ensemble Les Buffardins to the transverse flutist Frank Theuns juxtaposes some of his time esteemed Fl�tensonaten Sammartini such penned Handel, where it has set up following a former practice oboe sonatas for flute.

Both cassations KV 63 KV and 99 of the 13-year-old Mozart are among the earliest surviving serenades, and occupy the whole mastery of the young genius. These "occasional pieces" arrived at the Salzburg public good and thus to 1779 followed numerous other orchestral serenades and Divertiemnti for festive occasions. Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande make this little-known Unterhaltunsgmusiken Mozart a musical treat. Import Hybrid-SACD pressing.

Vienna 1709: Arias for Soprano and Viola da Gamba / Hana Blazikova, Petr Wagner, Ensemble Tourbillon, Blazikova / Wagner, Release Date: 10/14/2014. Composer: Pietro Baldassare, Attilio Ariosti, Giovanni Bononcini, Johann Joseph Fux, Performer: Hana Blazikova, Petr Wagner, Conductor: Petr Wagner, Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble Tourbillon, Number of Discs: 1. Czech soprano Hana Blazikova is an exciting young voice in Baroque music, regularly appearing in music festivals with top conductors. Viola da gambist Petr Wagner leads the Ensemble Tourbillon in rare and delightful arias. The title 'Vienna 1709' represents those arias from operas and oratorios composed during the first two decades of the 18th century in Vienna especially for the birthdays or name days of members of the imperial family. The album features arias by Fux, Ariosti and Bononcini in which the solo voice enters into a dialogue with one of several violas da gamba. Ensemble Tourbillon, under the direction of the Prague gambist Petr Wagner, supports Hana Blazikova and her clear, angelic soprano voice is capable of both virtuosity and delicate sensitivity. - Accent