Johann Georg Reutter (1708-1772) worked under the Emperor Charles VI and Maria Theresa as a court composer in Vienna at the time of the greatest territorial expansion of the Habsburg Empire, and in an era when the music life of the court was at a high point. At an early age he gained an excellent reputation as the creator of oratorios and works of music drama, and, through the accumulation of numerous offi ces at court and at St. Stephen‘s Cathedral, he held at the end of his life a position of power like no other composer before him.  With this CD the mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen and the Ensemble Nuovo Aspetto present a fascinating overview of the work of this extraordinarily prolifi c composer, whose oeuvre has hardly appeared on disc until now. Olivia Vermeulen‘s voice has a warm and intimate timbre. The instrumental accompaniment of the arias on this recording gets its characteristic silvery tone through the psaltery - the extremely virtuoso „dulcimer“ was held in particularly high regard at the Viennese court in Reutter‘s time. In the recorded instrumental works Reutter displays a colourful and virtuoso relationship with the orchestra - not without reason Reutter exerted considerable infl uence on the young Haydn (whom he had brought to Vienna as a boy singer) and on W. A. Mozart

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2012-09-01
• Nośnik CD