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Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch: Orchestral Suites - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Orchestral Suites

Artist:

Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch

Label:

Ondine

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

761195122020

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2013-11-19

Number of Discs:

1

Graupner's total surviving output comprises some 2,000 separate works, including ten operas, a hundred symphonies, a thousand cantatas, 85 orchestral suites and 44 concertos. A significant part of his orchestral output consists of concertos and suites with diverse, sometimes very curious instruments in the solo ensembles. Among the rarer solo instruments he favored were the flûte d'amour, a flute pitched a third lower than the normal transverse flute, and the viola d'amore, an instrument roughly the same size and shape as a viola but with resonating free strings in addition to the (usually) seven strings played with the bow. Combining the traverse and hunting horn in the same concerto, or the viola d'amore and the chalumeau, was extremely exceptional for the period.

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