Johann Joachim Quantz:
Sei Duetti (1759)
The Baroque music connoisseur looking for refined and expertly crafted performances of neglected musical gems will find this recording an unalloyed delight.
International Record Review
Previously unrecorded as a complete set using Quantz’s preferred instrumentation, the Sei Duetti (Six Duets) Op. 2 (Berlin, 1759) are works of high quality and interest.
Quantz presents his musical ideas as a continuously evolving conversation. They embody wonderfully the idea of Dialogue: The Art of Elegant Conversation.
These historically significant works are excellent examples of Quantz’s intermediate position between the Baroque and Classical periods. They deserve to be heard by a wider audience..
Resonus Classics (2014)
Barthold Kuijken Testimonial
“I listened with great pleasure to the Quantz duet recording of Greg Dikmans and Lucinda Moon. They made me rediscover these works, that have too often been undervalued as dry and uninteresting compositions.
“I am glad that Greg Dikmans and Lucinda Moon did not take the easy superficial approach, but made the effort to take these light and charming works “seriously” enough and bring out so many different shades of colours.
“Quantz himself recommends playing these pieces with two different instruments in order to do justice to the polyphonic writing, and I am particularly happy hearing them being performed on flute and violin rather than two flutes.
“Thanks, Greg and Lucinda!”
— Barthold Kuijken, Gooik, 21 May 2015
Lucinda Moon and Greg Dikmans (2013)
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Related Links
- A Biography of Johann Joachim Quantz
- Quantz was the son of a blacksmith. His story makes for fascinating reading and gives some insight into the life of an 18th-century musician.