box-sets
JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS
SIMONE KERMES · CONCERTO KÖLN · L'ARTE DEL MONDO · WERNER EHRHARDT
CD 1
AMPHITRYON - Schauspielmusik / Incidental Music
CD 2
KANTATEN / CANTATAS: "Olympie" VB 33 · "La Scusa" VB 43 · "La Primavera" VB 47
"La Gelosia" VB 46· "La Pesca" VB 44
CD 3
SINFONIEN / SYMPHONIES I: "Sinfonia da chieas" in D major · Sinfonie in C sharp minor
Sinfonie in C major · "Sinfonia funébre" in C minor
CD 4
SINFONIEN / SYMPHONIES II: Sinfonia in C minor · Sinfonia in E flat major
Sinfonia in C major · Sinfonia in D major
CD 5
KAMMERMUSIK / CHAMBER MUSIC: Flute Quintet in D major
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 1 No. 3
String Quartet in D major, Op. 1 No. 4
Joseph Martin Kraus, also named as the "Swedish Mozart", has been many years a shadowy existence in music history. Gluck and even Joseph Haydn saw "a real genius" in his virtuose and nearly early-romantic works. His position as composer at the swedish court under Gustav III. made it possible to have a fix income and a blithe creativity. This CD-Set gives us an overall musical impression about his compositions in all genres: Beginning with the incidental music to Amphitryon, the high virtuos Italian Cantatas, his Symphonies from different life periods, till the early String Quartets- Gluck and Haydn have not been mistaken.
