La Ricordanza - Fiery and Sublime: The Sources of Quantz's Inspiration (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 78:05 | 425 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG | Catalog: MDG 603 1644-2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 78:05 | 425 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG | Catalog: MDG 603 1644-2
The music on this album, sunny in mood and mostly in major keys, does not sound fiery and sublime to the modern listener. But the intent of the historical-performance group La Ricordanza is to put the listener into the frame of mind in which the courtiers of Frederick the Great of Prussia would have heard this music in the middle of the 18th century. In this the group succeeds, even if "the sources of Quantz's inspiration" as a subtitle makes the disc sound as though it's of exclusively academic interest.