Released: 4th April 2025, © WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING.

The renowned Austrian Ensemble Castor presents the first part of the world premiere recording of Johannes Schenck’s complete Opus 7, his only works written for violin and basso continuo. Schenck’s exciting music is a subtle combination of suites, sonatas, and pieces in the so-called “Stylus phantasicus”, resulting in an exquisite blend of elements of the French, Italian, and Dutch style. The pieces show an impressive variety of forms and demand of violin technique and offer a wide range of moods from vivid dances to expressive slow movements.

The Austrian Ensemble Castor plays with great spontaneity. Each movement is played according to its own character. Pizzicato, April 2025.

Der Beitrag Album: Johannes Schenck, Sonate per violino, violone o cimbalo Op.7 erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

Martinskirche Linz, Austria,
February 2024

Der Beitrag Giovanni Bassano, </br>Ricercata Seconda erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

Festival for Baroque and Literature.
Schloss Bernau, May 2022.

Der Beitrag Ars Concordia: Les Éléments – Der Beginn der Ordnung erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

Festival for Baroque and Literature

Schloss Bernau, May 2022

Der Beitrag Ars Concordia: In der Natur erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

Festival for Baroque and Literature.
Schloss Bernau, May 2022.

Der Beitrag Ars Concordia: Das Element Wasser erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

10th anniversary, Church of the Minor Friars in Linz, May 2021

Der Beitrag Concert for violine and strings: “Il Favorito” (Antonio Vivaldi) erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

10th anniversary, Church of the Minor Friars in Linz, May 2021

Der Beitrag Trio sonata for oboe, violine and b.c. in g minor TWV 42:g5 (G. Ph. Telemann) erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

Released: 5th February 2021, Pan Classics, © note 1 music gmbh.

Excerpts from opera of Agostino Steffani with the Italian soprano Silvia Frigato.

Agostino Steffani is one of those multi-talented personalities one often encounters in the baroque era. He was a man of the church who made it as far as titular bishop and mediator between Pope and Emperor. He was a much-travelled diplomat and politician, as well, who held high state offices up to minister, and he was a composer who wrote operas for the courts in Munich, Hanover and Düsseldorf. Especially in the last years his operas became again very popular because of their high quality.

The Italian soprano Silvia Frigato together with Ensemble Castor trace the stages of Steffani’s life through a selection of arias from his operas.

Der Beitrag Album: A Life for the Opera erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

Video portrait of Ensemble Castor by Brucknerhaus Linz

Der Beitrag BRUCKNERzHAUS erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.

Excerpt of the concert in the Gerstlhaus, Upper Austria

Der Beitrag Pianoforte Trios by Wolfgang A. Mozart and Joseph Haydn erschien zuerst auf Ensemble Castor.