Overtures & Concertos

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.