The booklet for this release from Germany's Profil label (in German and English) gives detailed and deserved biographies for flutist Pirmin Grehl, harpist Maria Graf, conductor Gernot Schulz, and even the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra of Bad Brückenau, one of the superb and largely unheralded small orchestras to dot the German landscape. The most credit for the success of this album, however, should go to producer Johannes Müller and balance engineer Reinhold Forster, working in an unspecified location, presumably a recording ...
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The booklet for this release from Germany's Profil label (in German and English) gives detailed and deserved biographies for flutist Pirmin Grehl, harpist Maria Graf, conductor Gernot Schulz, and even the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra of Bad Brückenau, one of the superb and largely unheralded small orchestras to dot the German landscape. The most credit for the success of this album, however, should go to producer Johannes Müller and balance engineer Reinhold Forster, working in an unspecified location, presumably a recording studio. Among the hundreds of recordings of the Concerto for flute, harp, and orchestra in C major, K. 299, this is one of just a few to both make the harp part fully audible and give the instrument a natural sound. This engineering feat is paired with an intelligent interpretation by the performers, reining in the orchestral part and creating space for the ebullient solo writing. Grehl and Graf turn the concerto into more of a solo vehicle than it usually is, and they do so without...
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