Forbes Classical CD of the Week

#CDoftheWeek on @ForbesOpinion: https://t.co/Pn93epMbZ0 on #BISRecords w/#JohannGottfried… https://t.co/zTrtgXWLba pic.twitter.com/VL9TOXwyKp

— Jens F. Laurson (@ClassicalCritic) May 26, 2016

…After a master-class tour of the Who’s-Who of late-baroque/post-baroque composers – Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Adolph Hasse, C.P.E. Bach, and Georg Philipp Telemann – the aspiring composer Johann Gottfried Müthel settled in Riga with his new-won skills and composed. But, in his own words, only when he was in the mood. He didn’t think much of working for work’s sake or whenever anything but fully inspired and convivial. Sounds as prototypical romantic as impractical an attitude to have. J.S. Bach and P.G. Wodehouse would certainly have disapproved and look where steady hard work has got them!…

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J.G.Müthel, Keyboard Concertos, Arte dei Suonatori, Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord) BIS