"This recording is the second in a projected seven-volume series exploring the so-called 'Sturm und Drang' movement that swept through music and other art forms between the early 1760s and the early 1780s ... A leading figure was the young Goethe, whose Sorrows of the Young Werther (1774) anticipated the sombre world-weariness of the next century's young Romantics, and the movement is generally considered to have reached its peak with Schiller's play Die Räuber (1780-81) ... This series of 'Sturm und Drang' recordings incorporates iconic compositions by Mozart, Gluck and, above all, Joseph Haydn, but it also includes largely forgotten or neglected works by less familiar names. All of the music featured on this second recording in the series was composed between 1765 and 1770, with three turbulent minor-key symphonies alternating with sacred and operatic arias".