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Reviewer:
Caroline
Gill The 1990s fashion for dispensing as many recordings as possible of ‘newly discovered’ Baroque music did not always guarantee the resurgence of long-hidden masterpieces: many had lain undiscovered for centuries with good reason. The music of the assiduous Christoph Graupner (who beat Bach for his job at Leipzig but was made an offer he couldn’t refuse to stay where he was) is perhaps more worthy than that, though. Much of his output was closed to public scrutiny due to a dispute between his estate and the State for many years, and only became accessible once their differences had been settled and the manuscripts placed in the University of Darmstadt. Now that they are back in the public domain, the sprightly Finnish Baroque Orchestra has taken it upon itself to inject long-lost momentum into his reputation, and this third volume covers the trio sonatas with characteristic sunny countenance.
Although the continuo part is left largely unembellished, it is nevertheless markedly perky in its demeanour, which gives the music the sort of forward drive and animation that lifts the music into an entirely different league of engagement. Although it would be inaccurate to say that Graupner is equal to Bach (or any other ‘great’ composer with whom he is unlucky enough to be competing for notoriety), it is concomitantly fair to suggest that his neglect has been unwarranted artistically; and that fact, combined with the meticulous accuracy of blend and tuning (even in the sonata for chalumeau, the honking folk precursor to the clarinet), skilfully combined here with rustic highspiritedness, has created a disc as much pioneering as it is enjoyable. |
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