Theresia Orchestra
Claudio Astronio
‘Overtures’ is a compilation of the complete overtures by German composer Joseph Martin Kraus – also called “the Swedish Mozart” because of his move to Stockholm, where he spent most of his professional life working at the Court of King Gustav III. Born in the same year in 1756 as Mozart, Kraus had a similarly short life as he only turned 36.
The album includes the opening movements Kraus wrote to the various ballets, operas, theatre works and the cantatas he composed for his patron at the Swedish Royal Palace.
This recording was made in 2019 by 43 players of Theresia Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Astronio at the Sala Filarmonica in Rovereto, Italy.