This album features leading soloists of the Seattle Symphony, recorded at the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium-Benaroya Hall in Seattle, USA.
Composer Biography
Antonio Vivaldi, a native of Venice, was an amazingly prolific composer with some fifty operas and over five hundred concertos to his credit.
Composition History
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Flute Concerto in D minor, H. 425, may have been written for King Frederick the Great, who was an amateur flautist.
Performer Biography
Scott Goff, the flutist on this recording, was the Principal Flute of the Seattle Symphony and Opera for 42 seasons, retiring in 2011.
Composer Biography
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was regarded as the leading keyboard-player of his day and was considered more important than his father by his generation.
Composer Biography
George Frideric Handel, born in Halle, initially studied law but abandoned it in 1703 to work as a musician in Hamburg.
Performer Biography
Gerard Schwarz, the conductor, was the Music Director of the Seattle Symphony from 1985 to 2011 and has a discography of over 330 releases.
