How many people can call to mind Andreas Schlüter's monumental Der Grosse Kurfurst? How many people can visualize Christoph Paradiso's charming Young Man with a Gray Hat? Schlüter and Paradiso are acknowledged to be the greatest sculptor and the greatest painter in the German states in the period after the Thirty Years' War, and yet one would guess that very few people would know who Schlüter and Paradiso are. Why, then, should anyone care about Gustav Leonhardt's 1992 recording of eight keyboard works by Georg Böhm, by ...
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How many people can call to mind Andreas Schlüter's monumental Der Grosse Kurfurst? How many people can visualize Christoph Paradiso's charming Young Man with a Gray Hat? Schlüter and Paradiso are acknowledged to be the greatest sculptor and the greatest painter in the German states in the period after the Thirty Years' War, and yet one would guess that very few people would know who Schlüter and Paradiso are. Why, then, should anyone care about Gustav Leonhardt's 1992 recording of eight keyboard works by Georg Böhm, by no means the greatest keyboard composer of the postwar period? Böhm's keyboard music is occasionally fascinating, as in the fiery Praeludium in G minor that opens the disc, but more often merely a less interesting Buxtehude, as in the Suite in E flat major that closes it. The only reason to care about this disc is if one is more interested in the performer than the repertoire. Thankfully, the performer is Gustav Leonhardt, the godfather of the early music movement and one...
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