Oboe Concertos: Loffler(Ob)Batzdorfer Hofkapelle

Brothers Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich Graun were highly influential and popular figures in 18th Century Berlin. As musicians of the court of Frederick the Great, Carl Heinrich became an important figure at the new Berlin Court Opera, while Johann Gottlieb strongly influenced early classicism in general as a violinist and composer. The name Graun was like a seal of approval in those days for zestful music rich in ideas, displayed perfectly by this collection of concertos. Oboist Xenia Lffler, a member of the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, has distinguished herself as a specialist for the North German repertoire of this period.