
Here’s another composer we would care more about if not for the existence of Bach and Telemann. Although the writer of the disc’s liner notes
Playing a gorgeously smooth-toned Hubbard & Broekman harpsichord based on the 1730s design of German instrument maker H.A. Hass, Geneviève Soly has unearthed a major
Graupner rocks! Well, not really, and somehow that didn’t come out sounding like I hoped it would; but if you’ve been following my reviews of
This series deserves far more attention than it is likely to get in today’s oversaturated market. Geneviève Soly is a marvelous performer, and her advocacy
Bach contemporary Christoph Graupner was a significant figure in 18th-century Lutheran church music, writing with a seemingly tireless facility for the cantata in its various
The same very competent and accomplished forces are back in Volume 2 of Analekta’s series devoted to the instrumental and vocal music of Bach/Handel contemporary
If anything, Volume 2 of Geneviève Soly’s remarkable survey of Graupner harpsichord partitas offers even more riches than the first volume. What makes these works
Composer Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) is another one of those unfortunate victims of fate and circumstance–a contemporary of Bach, Handel, Telemann, etc., who has remained largely–and