Gottlieb Garvo

Johann Gottlieb Graun - Trio Sonatas
Classical, Baroque | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 404 MB | RS
Recorded: 22-24 Oct. 1998, Sendesaal Radio Bremen
Released: 1999 | Label: cpo 999 623 | TT: 67:47
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During his lifetime, Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702-71), violinist, composer, and leader of the Berlin orchestra assembled by Frederick the Great, was a musician whose reputation and music reached beyond Potsdam and Berlin. But later generations came to regard his music as passé. It […] was overshadowed by the rapid development of the classical idiom in Mannheim and parallel Italian influences that took root in Vienna in the middle decades of the 18th Century. But Graun made his contribution to the emerging style, and his compositions written after 1745 or 1750 evince that. Without divorcing himself from the baroque idiom and deliberately keeping his distance from the emerging Mannheim school–he viewed it as superficial–Graun produced music of an individual nature. (Michael Carter, American Record Guide, 2000)