Gruber: Concerti Per Fortepiano

Ensemble Cristofori; Arthur Schoonderwoerd, direction & fortepiano

Georg Wilhelm Gruber (1709-1796)
Concerto primo in D major - Concerto secondo in F major - Sonata IV in D major

Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano) is one of the most important fortepianists of his generation. In addition to his world-wide solo career, he also is in demand as partner in chamber music and Lieder accompanist. He regularly performs with singers such as Hans Jörg Mammel, Sandrine Piau, Mark Padmore and with instrumentalists such as Eric Hoeprich, Jaap ter Linden, Barthold Kuijken, Wilbert Hazelzet, Miklos Spányi, François Leleux, and others.
The soloist group Ensemble Cristofori was founded by Arthur Schoonderwoerd to permit the authentic performance of clavier concertos of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The small orchestra of top-class musicians attracted particular attention with its recordings of Beethoven's piano concertos which were issued on the label Alpha.
Schoonderwoerd's research into unknown and unjustly forgotten repertoire of the 18th and 19th century as well as performance practice has taken him down fascinating roads. One of these led him to Georg Wilhelm Gruber (1709-1796). Stylistically, Gruber displays himself in his keyboard concertos as a highly independent musical personality. His music contains repeated hints of a variety of stylistic schools: the sensitive North German Empfindsamkeit, the Italian style and elements of the Mannheim school and from time to time also flashes of humour which are almost Haydnesque. Despite the wealth of influences to which Gruber was exposed and which he employed consciously or unconsciously, he was successful in finding his own personal musical language.

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