Graupner / Finnish Baroque Orch / Kaakinen-Pilch Orchestral Suites CD

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 fl?te 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.

1. Ouverture 2. Air en Gavotte 3. Hornepipe 4. Air en Sarabande 5. Air en Polonese 6. Air en Menuet 7. Ouverture 8. Air 9. Tempo Di Sarabande 10. Tempo Di Bourr?e VII 11. Air: Largo 12. Menuet VII 13. Ouverture 14. Air 15. Sarabande 16. Menuet I/Iv 17. Marche 18. Chaconne