The name of Johann Joachim Quantz appears in every music history text, with mention of his treatise on flute playing and perhaps the intersections of his career with those of the members of the Bach family. His music itself, as annotator Meike ten Brink points out in the booklet for this Naxos release (in German and English), is actually quite uncommon; most of it has not even been published or edited. Perhaps compilers have been daunted by Quantz's sheer productivity; the sonatas heard here, numbered from 272 to 277, come ...
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The name of Johann Joachim Quantz appears in every music history text, with mention of his treatise on flute playing and perhaps the intersections of his career with those of the members of the Bach family. His music itself, as annotator Meike ten Brink points out in the booklet for this Naxos release (in German and English), is actually quite uncommon; most of it has not even been published or edited. Perhaps compilers have been daunted by Quantz's sheer productivity; the sonatas heard here, numbered from 272 to 277, come from a corpus of more than 300 works in the genre, and the composer was prolific in other chamber genres, as well. Thus, this beautifully performed collection is most welcome. The packaging doesn't quite give an idea of what the music sounds like. There's lots of mention of Quantz's "mixed taste," combining various national styles and of his galant tendencies. These descriptions may be relevant for other Quantz compositions, but these sonatas are Italianate to the core, and they are...
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