Amadeus

This beautiful-sounding concerto is distinguished by the fact that it grants the bassoon equal concertante participation, so that an additional continuo-bass part can be dispensed with.

This quintet is also in the tradition of the concerto grosso. They are 'condensed' noble chamber pieces based on a soloist group instead of a ripieno sound body over a continuous continuo bass.

The instrumentation variations of this attractive concerto are many. The title 'La Pastorella' suggests a placid flow of Vivaldi's inexhaustible melodic thought. Light.

Edited after the first printing.

As one of the 'most dignified contrapuntalists', Schaffrath knew how to serve the gallant style of North German Empfindsamtkeit.

The given instrumentation can be varied. Thus the flute part in this congenial quadro can also be comfortably performed on an alto recorder, since it does not fall below f'.

He (Janitsch) was a good contrapuntalist and his quartets are the best samples of this kind. So righteous, so undisguised and sincere, so joyful his operation in music' (Joh. Wilhelm Hertel, 1784).

Appendix: A letter from Richard Wagner to Heinrich Szadrowsky.

With lists of works by composers from his circle.

With an index of Wagner performances in Zurich between 1834 and 2009 by Christian Bührle.

With a documentation of the Zurich premiere of Parsifal in 1913 by Eva Martina Hanke.

Haydn's works are an ideal language of truth, necessarily coherent and lively in their parts. They are perhaps to be surpassed, but not to be surpassed. - Goethe Wiese masters in the description and a...