The rudimentary symphonies of Johann Ernst Hartmann the Elder may be charming artifacts of early Classicism -- comparable to works produced by Sammartini, the Mannheim School, or other practitioners of the nascent form -- but they are not especially interesting beyond their historical aspects. Perhaps due to an obligation to fill gaps in their ...
One barrier, at least for American listeners, to comprehending the Danish label DaCapo's Palschau/Schulz: Concertos and Solo Works for Harpsichord is the great unfamiliarity of these names. Johann Gottfried Wilhelm Palschau is certainly a name known to very few; he was a Danish-born musician whose European reputation as a harpsichord virtuoso was ...
After recording the complete solo fortepiano works of Haydn, it was inevitable that Ronald Brautigam would record the complete fortepiano concertos of Haydn. Of course, it helps that while Haydn's complete solo fortepiano works take up 11 discs, his complete fortepiano concertos take up only a single disc, so Brautigam could record it before ...
Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter first reached an international audience as part of the cast of Georg Solti's recordings of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and B minor Mass in the early '90s. Since then, however, von Otter has stayed away from Bach, preferring to explore a wide range of more recent repertoire from Mozart through Brahms to ...
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