Valer Sabadus performs works by Carl Heinrich Graun | Bayreuth Baroque Festival 2023

From the Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth 2023

Valer Sabadus performs accompanied by the {oh!} Orkiestra, performs works of Carl Heinrich Graun, a composer most of whose works have been forgotten.

Born in Brandenburg in 1704, Carl Heinrich Graun made a name for himself as a student, and in 1724 was appointed to the court of Brunswick as Johann Adolph Hasse's successor. Prussia's Crown Prince Frederick - later to become the Great - was so impressed by his talent that he hired him at his court in Rheinsberg. It was here, under Frederick, that Graun composed his most remarkable stage works, including Cleopatra e Cesare, which opened the Königliche Hofoper - now the Staatsoper Berlin - and Montezuma, for which the King of Prussia himself wrote the libretto.

Music by

Carl Heinrich Graun(1704-1759)

Valer Barna-Sabadus(1986)

0:00:00 Intro
0:00:32 Rodelina, Regina de' Longobardi: Ouverture
0:08:42 Rodelina, Regina de' Longobardi: Quest’o Dio lugubre aspetto
0:14:18 Rodelina, Regina de' Longobardi: Ma il lento mormorio – Fonte ch'accresci l'onda
0:22:38 Cesare e Cleopatra: Ouverture
0:31:02 Artaserse: Sulle sponde del torbido lete
0:36:00 Adriano in Siria: Barbaro ne comprend pas
0:40:50 Adriano in Siria: Ouverture
0:50:16 Demofoonte: O più tremar non voglio
0:57:14 Demofoonte: Pargoletto Misero
1:05:49 Catone in Utica: Ouverture
1:13:15 Alessandro e Poro: Ah Gandarte, ah germana – Dov'è ? s'affretti
1:18:04 Montezuma: Si, per la rea congiura

Valer Sabadus – Countertenor
Martyna Pastuszka – Musical Direction and Violin

{oh!} Orkiestra
Kerstin Linder-Dewan, Vida Bobin-Sokołowska, Anna Nowak-Pokrzywińska,
Bartłomiej Fraś – Violin I
Dominika Małecka, Marzena Biwo, Izabela Kozak, Szymon Strzelczyk – Violin II
Dymitr Olszewski, Szymon Stochniol – Viola
Vladimir Waltham, Monika Hartmann – Cello
Michał Bak – Double Bass
Anna Firlus – Harpsichord
Jan Čižmář – Lute & theorbo
Benoit Laurent, Gustav Friedrichson – Oboe & flute
Josep Casadella – Bassoon
Guillermo Izquierdo Perez, Miguel Martin – Horn
Thomas Steinbrucker, Gerd Bachmann – Trumpet
Adam Maros – Timpani

Isabelle Soulard – Video Director

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