Apollo's Cabinet are a baroque band based who are proving that Early Music is anything but boring!

On January 24, 1758, Frederick II celebrated his 46th birthday – and we are joining in! Musicians from the Royal Court Orchestra perform, and works by Germany’s most gifted composers are being performed … and of course Johann Gottlieb Graun, who played music with Frederick when he was still crown prince, is concertmaster for the special occasion.

Apollo’s Cabinet has won a number of international prizes, including 1st prize and audience prize of the SMADE Musica Antigua Estella competition with this programme.

This performance is made possible thanks to the Royal Over-Seas League.

Programme: A Birthday Party for the King, Music at the Court of Frederick the Great

J G Graun Concerto in C Major for recorder and violin
G P Telemann Overture Suite: Les nations anciens et modèrnes, TWV55:G4
J S Bach Two canons from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
J J QuantzTrio Sonata in C Major
J S Bach Four-part canon from Musical Offering, BWV 1079
J A Hasse Cantata per Flauto
J S Bach ‘Schafe können sicherweiden’ (Sheep may safely graze), from cantata ‘Was mir behagt, istnur die muntre Jagd’, BWV208
G P Telemann selected movements from Overture Suite: Les nations anciens et modèrnes, TWV55:G4
Traditional birthday song: ‘Hochsoll er leben’