Composer: Gottlieb Muffat
Performer: Naoko Akutagawa
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8573275
Release: 2019
Size: 464 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Keyboard Suite in A Major, MC B16
01. I. Prélude
02. II. Allemande
03. III. Courante
04. IV. Sarabande
05. V. Menuet
06. VI. Coquette
07. VII. Gigue
Keyboard Suite in D Minor, MC B43
08. I. Fantaisie
09. II. Allemande
10. III. Hornpipe
11. IV. Gavotte en rondeau
12. V. Sarabande
13. VI. Menuet
14. VII. Air
15. VIII. Menuet – Trio
16. IX. Gigue
Keyboard Suite in F Major, MC B9
17. I. Prélude
18. II. Menuet
19. III. Fantaisie
20. IV. Sarabande
21. V. Bourrée
22. VI. Postillon
23. VII. Menuet – Trio
24. VIII. Finale
Keyboard Suite in C Major, MC B15
25. I. Prélude
26. II. Menuet
27. III. L’Allégresse
28. IV. Contrefaiseur
29. V. Rondeau
30. VI. Sarabande
31. VII. Passepieds I & II
32. VIII. Gigue
33. IX. Marche
34. X. Finale
Gottlieb Muffat, youngest son of composer and Kapellmeister Georg Muffat, was a keyboard virtuoso whose career was based around the Viennese Imperial Court. Muffat, with his own elegantly ornamented style, absorbing influences from Germany, France and Italy, is remembered as a composer from whom Handel borrowed extensively – a common practice of the period. These premiere recordings represent the remarkable rediscovery of manuscripts sequestered and dispersed after the Second World War. Naoko Akutagawa’s previous recordings from Muffat’s Componimenti musicali (8572610) were described by MusicWeb International as ‘galvanically virtuosic’.