The complete performance of "Magic Flute" from which these excerpts were taken are available as Naxos 8-660030/1.

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (2 November 1739 - 24 October 1799) was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist. Music from this Classical period can be difficult to be positive about when it's compared to the works of Mozart, but Dittersdorf's manages to be far from boring and in fact not that far removed from the music of Mozart. All the music on this CD has a gentle and flowing nature about it, while still managing to dip into the lower/softer extremes of it's subject as well as the more intense aspects. This selection was recorded at the Calvanist Church, Budapest, Hungry, from 9th to 11th December, 1996.

BACH, J.C.: Sinfonias, Vol. 4

DITTERSDORF: Sinfonias on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos. 4 - 6

DITTERSDORF: Sinfonias on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos. 1 - 3