presented by John Thornley. Moving in Higlwr Circles: Music for Kings and Connoisseurs
"With respectful pleasure I recall how during my visit to Potsdam, Your Majesty deigned to play me a theme on the clavier, and charged me most graciously to turn it into a fugue there and then, in the royal presence. I soon noticed that my performance was not equal to the right royal theme, which I decided to work out more perfectly, and make it known to the world."
Contrapunctus VI (In the French Style) (The Art of Fugue)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Trio Sonata in E flat
(BWV525)
Lionel Rogg (organ)
Cantata No 206:
Schleicht, spielende
Wellen (for the birthday of King August III) (excerpts)
Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Christoph Pregardien
(tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Chamber Chorus of Stuttgart, Concerto Cologne, director Frieder Bernius
Sonata on the Royal
Theme (Trio Sonata in C minor) (A Musical
Offering most humbly dedicated to his Royal Majesty, the King of Prussia)
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Reinhard Goebel (violin), Charles Medlam (viola da gamba), Henk Bouman (harpsichord)
Chorale Prelude: Vor deinen Thron tret ich
(BWV668)
Helmut Walcha (organises