L'arpa festante is a German chamber orchestra, specializing in the revival and performance of unknown works, especially from the Baroque era. It was established in Munich in 1983 by Michi Gaigg, who also led the ensemble as concertmaster until 1995. The ensemble takes its name from Giovanni Battista Maccioni's dramatic cantata L'arpa festante (The Festive Harp) which was first performed in 1653, inaugurating what was to become the Bavarian State Opera.

Given Weinberger’s choice of instruments, this deserves to be considered a period-performance cycle of Reger’s music. The difference that makes is slight in most volumes, but in this, presumably.

The Gutenberg Soloists were founded in 2020 as part of the Telemann Project undertaken at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. The group was heard on the project's first two recordings, devoted to the so-called Französischer Jahrgang cantatas of Telemann. The Gutenberg Soloists (the English plural term is used even in German contexts) grew out of an earlier collaboration between conductor and cellist Felix Koch and the music program at Johannes Gutenberg University; Koch had joined with the Gutenberg Kammerchor to record Bach's Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11, in 2018.

Smethergell's Charming Overtures Vol. 1 - von den Komponisten des britischen Königreichs, die als Zeitgenossen von Joseph Haydn bezeichnet werden können, sind heute fast alle weitgehend vergessen. Doch schon vor Haydns Ankunft im Jahr 1790 blühte nicht nur das Studium seiner Musik, sondern vor allem waren Orchesterkonzerte an verschiedenen Orten längst etabliert. Über William Smethergell war lange Zeit fast nichts bekannt.

Boris Godunov - not by Mussorgsky. The story of how Johann Mattheson's political comedy Boris Goudenow came into being reads in large parts more exciting than many a mystery script: written in 1710 for the Hamburg Opera at the Gänsemarkt, the work was suddenly withdrawn by the composer. The score fell into oblivion, eventually found its way into the Hamburg City Library, and was long considered lost after World War II. It was not until the end of the 20th century that the opera was tracked down in Armenia and returned to Hamburg, where the premiere finally took place in 2005 after a delay of almost 300 years.The place of action is the Moscow Kremlin. The opera's plot revolves around the story of how the Russian prince Boris Goudenov rises to power through intrigue and becomes Russian tsar.The new Innsbruck production under the musical direction of the renowned Italian harpsichordist and conductor Andrea Marchiol makes this baroque jewel resound anew.

"The Passion music Johann David Heinichen wrote for the Dresden court is a document of cultural and confessional openness of the Saxon residence, and his two Italian oratorios heard here are surrogates of large-scale Passion music. ""Come? S'imbruna il ciel"" - composed in 1728 - is the latest of the sepolcri, his other Passion ""L'aride tempie ignude"" the first of the sepolcri to survive from Heinichen in Dresden. Both texts are by Stefano Pallavicino, who had been active at the Dresden court since 1719. In the first-mentioned Passion, the meditation on the Passion event recurs to the experience of the earthquake that, according to biblical accounts, occurred immediately after the death of Jesus.