• In 1732-33 Telemann published the 12 Fantasies for “transverse flute without bass”. The composer uses the Fantasie structure as a vehicle for highly variable musical forms and means of expression. Telemann described the 1716 Little Chamber Music as “consisting of 6 Partiten, arranged in a light singing manner for the violin, transverse flute, and keyboard.” Hansjörg Schellenberger, Margit-Anna Süß and Josef Radauer perform.

Suss Solo

Trio Marie-Antoinette: Musik in Versailles

Essential: 20 Years of Vienna Ensemble

Beethoven: Early Wind Music

Mozart in der Bauernmusik

Romantische Verwandlungen

Haydn: The Bartolozzi Trios

Brahms & Gal: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano

Martin, Lutoslawski & Ibert: Concertante

Clara and Robert Schumann: Romanzen

Bach: Sonaten

" Mozart composed this quartet masterpiece for oboe for a “most esteemed” friend and oboist, Friedrich Ramm. Mozart always wrote his solo works to the abilities of his performers; Ramm’s playing and virtuosity must have really inspired him. Around 1786, Joseph Haydn, by now famed across Europe, was offered a very special commission from Spain: a composition to be heard at the climax of Holy Week on Good Friday. The subject was the meditation on the “Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross”."

Paris - the city of so many dreams and promises - has its own special ring in the ears of harpists. In hardly any other place in the world has the harp been played so much, had so many compositions written for it and been so popular. It is no coincidence that all the great works for harp on this album were written in Paris - for that is its home town.

Margit-Anna Süss has a busy international career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Karl-Heinz Schütz is Solo Flute of Wiener Philharmoniker and therefor in the same position at the Wiener Staatsoper, having held the same position with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker or four years, and with the Wiener Symphoniker from 2005 to 2011. For more than five decades, the Berliner Symphoniker have been an integral part of Berlin’s musical and cultural life and enrich the German orchestra landscape. Alongside his career as a soloist he has also, for many years, been much in demand all over the world as a conductor. From 2012 to 2022 he was chief conductor of the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra and is currently chief conductor of the Berlin Symphonic. He is also a guest conductor with the Camerata Salzburg, the Spanish national orchestra, the Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern and other world-class orchestras. In May 2022 he was on the podium with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at its truly historic concert in Dubai. In 2018 Professor Hansjörg Schellenberger received the prestigious Verdienstkreuz am Bande der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Schubert: Complete Impromptus, Opp. 90 & 142 (Arr. for Harp)