Gottlieb Garvo

Oskar Gottlieb Blarr - The Compositions for Solo Organ
Wolfgang Abendroth an der Beckerath-Orgel, Johanniskirche & der Rieger-Orgel, Neanderkirche, Düsseldorf
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Label/Cat#: Ars Musici # AM 1388-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2004
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Style: Contemporary, Organ, present 21th Century

Oskar Gottlieb Blarr (born 6 May 1934 in East Prussia) is a German composer, organist and church musician. (…) As a composer Oskar Gottlieb Blarr created oratorios, orchestral works, chamber and organ music. He also composed numerous New Spiritual songs. He published many of his songs under the pseudonym Brother Choral Ogo…

On her solo debut CD, Muffat Meets Handel, the successful young harpsichordist Flóra Fábri performs harpsichord pieces by precisely these two composers. Although the dates of the two musicians overlap for a period of almost seventy years, the same thing happened in this case as with many of Handel’s contemporaries: the two never met personally. However, unlike Bach and Mattheson, here musical awareness of the other did not operate in accordance with a 'one-way-street principle': it was not only Muffat who admired Handel and arranged his music; the process also functioned the other way around.

Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/3-1771) began his musical studies at the famous Kreuzschule in Dresden. Subsequently he acquired his legendary prowess on the violin from two of the most excellent teachers of the time: the Vivaldi disciple, Johann Georg Pisendel in Dresden and Giuseppe Tartini in Padova. Very early in his career, during his service as concertmaster in Merseburg, Graun got acquainted with Johann Christian Hertel (1697-1754), an outstanding viola da gamba virtuoso; they remained friends throughout their lives, corresponding frequently. This may be the reason for Graun's apparent knowledge of the technical possibilities of the viol: his compositions for this instrument - not less than 22 large-scale works are extant - bear witness to this.

The German composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann is mostly known for his operas. One of them, Gustav Wasa, which he composed in Sweden in 1786 and which he considered his best work, even became a Swedish national opera. This recording shows a lesser known aspect of Naumann's output: his sacred compositions. It contains three works: a large-scale cantata and two short pieces, which are much more modest in scoring and style.

JJohann Gottlieb Naumann, a contemporary of Joseph Haydn, was associated with Dresden, worked in Sweden and travelled in Italy. In his Passione di Gesù Cristo he concentrates on smaller scale emotions and conflicts – albeit in the context of the (conventional) Passion story. It was written, probably, in 1767. That’s quite an undertaking for a twenty-six year old, although Naumann already had several other vocal and choral successes to his name.

The present richly enjoyable CD contains five trios by Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich. In some areas of the brothers’ work it is near enough impossible to know who wrote what with any certainty – as Grove puts it “problems of attribution, chronology and biographical detail remain”. Manuscript attributions usually refer simply to ‘Graun’.

Lori Gottlieb est psychothérapeute à Los Angeles lorsqu'une crise fait éclater son univers et l'incite à consulter à son tour. Quelle n'est pas sa surprise de constater que ses angoisses sont identiques à celles de ses patients: le producteur télé égocentrique, la nouvelle mariée en phase terminale, la dame âgée esseulée et suicidaire, la jeune professionnelle qui boit trop et qui séduit toujours les mauvais hommes! …