J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer - Music at the Court of Frederick the Great

In 1747, Johann Sebastian Bach visited his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach at the court of Frederick the Great in Potsdam. The king, himself an accomplished traverso player, gave Bach a complex theme on which to improvise. Back home, Bach further developed this theme into the *Musikalisches Opfer*, which he dedicated to the monarch as a gift. This program reconstructs a concert at the court of Sanssouci, w where , C.P.E. Bach likely alternated his father’s new work with his own compositions—naturally, with the traverso in the leading role.

Musicians: Tami Krausz (traverso), Hed Yaron Meyerson (baroque violin), Anna Lachegyi (baroque cello), and Henriëtte Wirth (harpsichord)