Lowe, The Mozartists, Page, Wigmore Hall - an education, not quite a triumph
Curate’s-egg focus on the year 1773 finds first-rate performers sometimes in trouble. Classical music review by David Nice
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Curate’s-egg focus on the year 1773 finds first-rate performers sometimes in trouble. Classical music review by David Nice
WTJU Apr 5th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves So who was Anton Schweitzer? Born in 1735, he was a child prodigy who enjoyed the patronage of the Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. The duke paid for his education and made him Kapellmeister of his court orchestra. When the orchestra was disbanded, Schweitzer hit the road with a theatrical troupe. Most of his surviving compositions are operas, written for the troupe. And that’s the key word — surviving. Much of Schweitzer’s music has been lost over time. This album, for example, represents almost the whole of his surviving sacred music. And that’s...