The Overtures of Joseph Martin Kraus

The Overtures of Joseph Martin Kraus

This is exactly the sort of discovery that first got me “into” Classical music. Perhaps I'd find an obscure composer on a Turnabout LP (Koželuch sings to mind on one occasion), and the search for more - more music, more detail, more history - began. The German label cpo feeds me these days, perhaps more than any other. Here is a set of overturs by Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792), born in the same year as Mozart and only outliving him by a year. …