'From the year 1742. when the late King of Prussia fixed the musical establishments of his opera and court, so many eminent musicians were engaged in his service that Berlin seems to have given the law to the rest of Germany...' (Dr Burnet writing In 1789, three years after Frederick's death.)

Frederick the Great Symphony in D - Emil Seiler Chamber Orchestra

Hasse Aria from La clemenza di Tito - Libuse Marova (contralto) Prague Chamber Soloists conducted by Libor Hlavacek

Weiss Tombeau sur la mort de M. Cajetan, Baron d'Hartig - Konrad Junchanel (lute)

Quantz Trio-Sonata in C - Frans Broggen (recorder) Frans Vester (flute), Anner Bylsma (Cello), Gustav Lionhardt (harpsichord)

Carl Heinrich Graun Concerto in F - Franz Haselbock (organ) Capella Academica, Vienna conducted by Ernst Hinheiner

(records)