Wednesday 28th January 2025
Keele University Chapel, 7:30pm
Apollo’s Cabinet
A birthday party for a king - Music at the court of Frederick the Great
On January 24, 1758, Frederick II celebrated his 46th birthday – and we are joining! Musicians from the Royal Court Orchestra perform, and of course Johann Gottlieb Graun, who played music with Frederick when he was still crown prince, is concertmaster for the special occasion. Works by Germany's most gifted composers are being performed and didn’t the late Johann Sebastian Bach once consecrate a "musical offering" to the king, in which he transformed a theme given to him by Frederick to all the rules of his art? With Georg Philipp Telemann, the flair of the big wide world comes from the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. But music isn't everything: there's dancing, laughing and playing, as befits a royal party. And Frederick's revered flute master and musical father figure Johann Joachim Quantz leads the celebrations as maître de plaisir.
Frederick the Great March
J. G. Graun Concerto for Recorder and Violin in C-Major
Allegro
C.P.E. Bach Hamburger Flötensonate in G Dur, Hg164
Allegretto
J. J. Quantz Triosonata in C-Major
Vivace
J. S. Bach Musical Offering, BWV1079
Canon a 2 cancrizans - Canon a 2 violini unisono -
Canon per tonos
J. A. Hasse Cantata per Flauto
Allegro - Largo - Allegro
D. Buxtehude La Capricciosa
Kraut und Rüben and other Pop- and Folk tunes
INTERVAL
G. P. Telemann Overture Suite: Les nations anciens et modèrnes, TWV55:G4
J. P. Kirnberger Der allzeit bereite Menuetten- und
Polonaisenkomponist
Dice-Compositions
J. S. Bach Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd BWV 208 Sheep may safely graze
G. P. Telemann Concerto for recorder and traverso, TWV 52:e1 Presto
Tickets £16
Students and 16 and under are FREE
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