GOTTLIEB MUFFAT Componimenti Musicali per il Cembalo
Mitzi Meyerson
GCD 921804
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Performing artists
Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord
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Recorded in Berlin-Karlshorst (Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft), Germany, in October 2006 Engineered and produced by Maria Suschke Executive producer: Carlos Céster Design: Valentín Iglesias Booklet essay: Boris Kehrmann English - Français - Deutsch - Español
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GOTTLIEB MUFFAT (1690-1770)
Componimenti Musicali per il Cembalo (c.1736)
CD I [72:21]
01-08 Suite V 09-16 Suite III 17-25 Suite VI
CD II [77:46]
01-08 Suite I 09-16 Suite II 17-25 Suite IV 26 Suite VII (Chaconne)
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Mitzi Meyerson posee una percepción (y una experiencia) tan profunda de la literatura para clavecín que cada una de sus visitas a los estudios de grabación anuncia que algo raro, fascinante, iluminador, está a punto de surgir...
En su nueva exploración más allá del repertorio tradicional de la música barroca, la celebrada intérprete nacida en Chicago –ciudad que la adora–, se adentra en los Componimenti Musicali de Muffat, no Georg, que estudió en París con Lully, sino su hijo, Gottlieb. Esos Componimenti son prácticamente las únicas obras que sobrevivieron de este músico, activo en la corte imperial vienesa en pleno siglo XVIII y hoy completamente olvidado. Recorriendo una colección de seis suites (y una innovadora Chaconne) hechas de atmósferas contrastadas, Mitzi Meyerson explora el mundo ecléctico y decididamente no académico de Muffat, mediante toda clase de variaciones, danzas –courantes, zarabandas, minuetos, alemandas, gigas–, improvisaciones y piezas de carácter que reflejan un amplio abanico de estilos nacionales.
Esta grabación expresa toda la alegría y el arrojo del Barroco, y nos lleva a hacernos la misma pregunta que Mitzi Meyerson: «¿Cómo un compositor como Gottlieb Muffat pudo caer en el olvido con el paso del tiempo?»
Mitzi Meyerson has been delving of late for Glossa into unjustly forgotten keyboard repertory from the Baroque. Praised by no less a critic than Nicholas Kenyon for her recording of Gottlieb Muffat’s Componimenti Musicali per il Cembalo (“Eureka! I’ve known these wonderful pieces for years, having bought an old edition of the music, but have never heard them properly performed. So it’s a joy to hear Mitzi Meyerson’s glorious realisation of these 18th-century suites, which lie at the heart of the high baroque style...”), Meyerson now turns her attention to the shadowy figure of Englishman Richard Jones. [read more...]
Mitzi Meyerson’s insight into (and experience with) the harpsichord literature of the Baroque is such that when she makes a visit to the recording studio, one knows that something rare, fascinating and illuminating will emerge. This has been the case in recent years with both the Claviersuiten by Georg Böhm and the Musique de Salon of Claude-Bénigne Balbastre (which have also appeared on Glossa); the latest exploration beyond the mainstream undertaken by Mitzi Meyerson – Muffat’s Componimenti Musicali – is charged with the same character and sense of expectation. This is not the Georg Muffat who studied in Paris with Lully but his son, Gottlieb (also known as Theofilo), who spent much of his career in Vienna and whose set of six harpsichord suites Componimenti Musicali appeared towards the end of the 1730s. [read more...]
Mitzi Meyerson signals her return on Glossa with a further example of her ability to seek out entertaining music that for too long has been ignored and perform it with all the subtlety, charm and musical skill that such music demands. For her new Glossa release she presents a demonstration of the compositional joys provided by one of the lesser-known French keyboard masters – Claude-Bénigne Balbastre. In her substantial discography there are already recordings given over to other bypassed talents such as Jacques Duphly, Georg Böhm, Antoine Forqueray and even the Fourth Book of François Couperin. [read more...]