Joseph Martin Kraus:
Quintet in D, VB 188

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf:
Duetto in E-flat, Kr. 219

Franz Joseph Haydn:
Symphony in G, Hob. I:94, “Surprise” (arr. Johann Peter Salomon for flute and strings)

Philadelphia-based period-instrument ensemble Night Music re-creates an afternoon of music making from October 1801 at the Austrian capital’s Palais Arnstein, with a flamboyant Quintet for flute and strings by Joseph Kraus, a duo by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf for the unusual combination of viola and double bass, and a chamber arrangement – by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon utilising the same instrumentation as the Kraus Quintet – of perhaps the most notorious of symphonic surprises.

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Recording: 27–29 August 2018, Immanuel Highlands Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Instrumentarium: eight-keyed flute after August Grenser, Dresden, c.1790; Violin: Sebastian Dalinger, Vienna, 1794; Cello: J. Schorn (Stainer school), c.1680