Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Heinrich Schütz, Henry Purcell, François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Jakob Froberger, Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Christian Bach, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland, William Byrd, Thomas Morley, John Bull, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Adam Krieger, Heinrich Albert, Nicolaus Hasse, Alessandro Poglietti, Nicolas de Grigny, Johann Kuhnau, Johann Adam Reincken, Heinrich Scheidemann, Georg Böhm, Francesco Turini, Giulio Caccini, Biagio Marini, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, William Lawes, John Coprario, Thomas Simpson, Thomas Lupo, Thomas Tomkins, Orlando Gibbons, Giles Farnaby
The abundant legacy of Gustav Leonhardt’s recordings for Telefunken’s Das Alte Werk series invites us to follow his trajectory as a performer from the early 1960’s onwards, a time when the new codes of early music had yet to be invented, when their success depended above all on the strength of conviction of the performer. Leonhardt’s was strengthened by dialogue: with a range of partners whose variety defies all preconceived ideas, with ancient instruments or modern copies of all types, with repertoires as diverse as Byrd, Purcell, Rameau, Johann Sebastian but also Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach. Not forgetting the 1970 Monteverdi LP, which has never been reissued since. The image of a pope of early music isolated in his tower and frozen in a school style does not last long after listening to this historical sum, extended here by the later series of recordings under the Virgin Veritas flag.
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