Joseph Martin Kraus, the German-born Swedish composer who was an almost exact contemporary of Mozart, is primarily known as a late classical symphonist of extraordinary importance, and heretofore this is where recording of his output has been concentrated. On Bis' Joseph Martin Kraus: The Complete Piano Music, pianist Ronald Brautigam comes to ...
The first volume of the Concerto Köln two-volume collection of the mature symphonies of Joseph Martin Kraus opens with his Symphony in C minor from 1783, the work that caused Haydn to say of Kraus that he was "one of the greatest geniuses I have met." It's that good, and the other three symphonies on this disc are just as good: the bright and ...
Something smells fishy around here, and it just might be Joseph Martin Kraus' ballet Fiskarena. This is one of about four ballets he is known to have composed, and in recording it, Kraus' two early pantomimes and his inserts for Gluck's ballet Armide Petter Sundkvist and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra come dangerously close to exhausting Kraus' ...
Joseph Martin Kraus has made one of the most impressive comebacks of any composer belonging to an age as distant as his is to the twenty-first century. Though two centuries would pass between his death in 1792 and the eventual revival of his music, within the space of roughly a decade Kraus' 200 or so surviving compositions have practically all ...
Joseph Martin Kraus is a hero in Swedish music history, but he was born and educated in Germany, where he was introduced to the Sturm und Drang movement. The sonatas on this disc, performed by Vaughan Schlepp, Antoinette Lohmann, and Frank Wakelkamp on period instruments, are good examples of how Kraus applied Sturm und Drang principles to his ...
This time there really does seem to be a Joseph Martin Kraus revival taking place. It has been tried before. Kraus' radically inventive symphonies would occasionally appear in the international catalogs, his heartwrenching Funeral Music for Gustav III would be issued once a decade or so, and even his masterful opera Proserpina managed to receive ...
That the four main works on this disc have never been recorded before is no reflection on the quality of the music or the composer. Joseph Martin Kraus, the German-born composer-contemporary of Mozart's working in Sweden, was all but forgotten after his death in 1792 and recordings of his works have been few and far between. And his four Italian ...
Thanks to Naxos, the music of Joseph Martin Kraus continues to receive its moment in the sun. Though the early digital age saw several excellent recordings issued by various Swedish labels, Naxos has contributed more to the Kraus discography than all other labels put together. This superb 2007 disc contains three world-premiere recordings by the ...
As good as the first volume of Kraus' mature symphonies by the Concerto Köln from 1991 was -- and it was one of the finest discs of symphonies from the 1780s ever released -- the second volume from 1992 is even better. This volume has the bright and brilliant three-movement C major with violin obbligato from 1780; the original four-movement ...
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