IDAGIO | Florilegium - Music For A King (Chamber Works from the Court of Frederick the Great) 723385418191

Featuring

Terence Charlston
Ashley Solomon
Bojan Čičić
Reiko Ichise
Jennifer Morsches
Julian Perkins

Florilegium
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Joachim Quantz
Carl Heinrich Graun
Johann Gottlieb Graun
Johann Gottfried Müthel
Franz Benda
Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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Performer Biography

Ashley Solomon, Florilegium's director, co-founded the ensemble in 1991 and has made 30 recordings with Channel Classics, many of which have won international awards.

Performer Biography

Bojan Cicic, a baroque violinist, formed his own group, the Illyria Consort, to explore rare 17th and 18th-century repertoire from the Venetian Republic and Habsburg Empire.

Performer Biography

Ashley Solomon's recording of the complete Bach's Flute Sonatas was voted the best overall version on either modern or period flute by Gramophone Magazine in February 2017.

Performer Biography

Florilegium, one of Britain's most outstanding period instrument ensembles, has been performing since 1991 and has held residencies at London's Wigmore Hall and the Royal College of Music.

Performer Biography

Since 2003, Ashley Solomon has been training vocalists and instrumentalists in Bolivia, forming the Arakaendar Bolivia Choir in 2005, and received the prestigious Bolivian Hans Roth Prize in 2008 for his work.

Performer Biography

Florilegium's numerous recordings for Channel Classics have received many awards, including two Gramophone Award nominations, three BBC Music Magazine awards, and six Diapasons d'Or.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in November 2018 at St. Michael's Highgate, using Bruel & Kjaer 4006 and Schoeps microphones, and DSD Super Audio / Horus / DSD256 digital conversion.