Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
Quintette pour flûte et cordes en ré majeur, VB 188

Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Duo pour alto et violone en mi bémol majeur, Kr 219

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphonie n° 94 en sol majeur, Hob. I:94 "Surprise" (trans. pour flûte et cordes de J.P. Salomon)

Ensemble Night Music

Rebecca Harris, violon
Marika Holmqvist, violon
Daniel Elyar, alto
Rebecca Humphrey Diederich, violoncelle
Steven Zohn, flûte, direction artistique
Heather Miller Lardin, violone, direction artistique

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 in the same instrumentation as the Kraus Quintet – of perhaps the most notorious of symphonic surprises.