Weihnachtskonzert am Münchner Hof

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for Orchestr D major BWV 1068, Symphony from the Christmas Oratory
Agosto Steffani: Sonate a tre. B-dur
Johann Christoph Pez:Concerto pastorale (2 traditional christmas songs for lute)
Guiseppe Torelli: fatto per il santissimo natale
Evaristo Felice Dall ‘Abaco: Concerto Grosso op. 5 No. 5

Hofkapelle München
Axel Wolf, Laute
Stefan Schilli, Oboe
Rüdiger Lotter, Violine & Dirigent

This program imagines what a Christmas concert at the Munich Residence might have been like. It includes works by composers who may well be unknown to today’s listeners, but who played a significant role at the Munich Court during the Baroque age, e.g. Johann Christoph Pez and Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco. Under the direction of its concertmaster Rüdiger Lotter, the Hofkapelle München performs works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries on original instruments. Since its foundation in 1992 as the Neue Hofkapelle München, the ensemble quickly established itself as one of the most popular baroque orchestras in Bavaria.
Its guest soloists include lutenist Axel Wolf, who played a major role in many of the celebrated baroque operas performed in Sir Peter Jonas’ era and who is highly successful as a soloist, as well as Stefan Schilli, solo oboist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, who is in great demand as a baroque oboist, for example in the ensemble “L’accademia giocosa”.
The program heard on this CD will also be performed live in Munich’s Cuvilliés Theater on December 12 and 19, 2010.