What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Antonmb]

Revisiting this fine disc of concerti from the collection “Neville Marriner: The Argo Years”

[bart]

Christoph Graupner - Das Leiden Jesu - Passion Cantatas II
Ex Tempore
Mannheimer Hofkapelle, Florian Heyerick
via Qobuz




Florian Heyerick continues his work to make Graupner more popular.
We're lucky he does that, because this is fantastic music.

[cma29]

Just got this after reading about it in Gramophone (June 2018)...

Förster, C: Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, Hob.VIId:3
Mozart, L: Sinfonia di camera in D for corno da caccia, violin, strings and harpsichord
Neruda, J B G: Concerto in E flat for Corno da caccia, strings, and basso continuo
Telemann: Concerto TWV 51: D8 in D major for horn, strings & b.c.
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan



Some background on this SACD:

Mozart’s horn concertos are so well-known that for many listeners the sound of the horn and Mozart are virtually synonymous. Mozart was not the first composer to write solo concertos for the horn, however, and works from earlier on in the eighteenth century give a quite different perspective on the instrument. With this disc soloist Alec Frank-Gemmill provides insights into some of these early horn concertos, by composers ranging from Telemann to Haydn, by way of Mozart’s own father, Leopold. In the seventeenth century, when the horn first appeared in classical music, it was in the context of hunting scenes in operas by Lully, Cavalli and others. But the instrument’s true adoption into art music really began the following century in the German-speaking world, where Dresden for a while became the most important centre for performing on, and composing for, the horn. Around 1750, both Christoph Förster and Johann Baptist Georg Neruda wrote extremely demanding and virtuosic concertos – Neruda’s Concerto in E flat major is in such a high register that it has sometimes been assumed to be composed for the trumpet. Through modern innovations in horn design it is once more possible to perform all of these early horn concertos, including parts previously considered ‘impossibly high’.

Alec Frank-Gemmill is recognised internationally for the exceptional breadth and depth of his music-making. His interest in historical performance informed his previous, highly acclaimed disc for BIS – a traversal of the horn repertoire throughout some 140 years, performed on four different 19th-century instruments. On the present disc he plays on modern horns, but draws heavily on his familiarity with 18th-century horn technique and style, with the support of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under period performance expert Nicholas McGegan.

I really enjoyed the music and the playing by Frank-Gemmill. The BIS recording is up to its usual high standards.

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by cma29

Just got this after reading about it in Gramophone (June 2018)...

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I really enjoyed the music and the playing by Frank-Gemmill. The BIS recording is up to its usual high standards.

Have you tried this one?

[cma29]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Have you tried this one?

No, but I will

[cma29]

Now this...

Bach, J S: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord Nos. 1-6, BWV1014-1019
Isabelle Faust (violin) & Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)



Gramopohone:

Faust and Bezuidenhout played these sonatas a lot in concert before taking them into the studio and it shows – both in the detail and the trust that allows for real risk-taking...

Can I find fault with this set? No, I cannot. It’s an eloquent and beautifully recorded homage to the composer and demands to be in the collection of all Bach lovers post-haste.

I like this set and bumps the John Butt Linn release from my library.

[cma29]

Originally Posted by cma29

I just got this from Presto Classical...

A Telemann Companion
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs



This is a 7-disc set compiled from previously released material (1998 - 2009) which includes an opera (Orpheus), a Passion Oratorio 'Mich vom Stricke meiner Sünden' ('Brockes Passion'), and a bunch of orchestral suites and concertos.

Playing disc 5 which includes orchestral suites. Sounds exuberant and the recording is spot on. I like it

Currently on sale for $25.25 from Presto Classical.

Playing disc 6 which includes more orchestral suites. Exuberant music very well played and recorded. Gorgeous.

[Antonmb]

A wonderful set of Haydn string quartets, with excellent sound.

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

A wonderful set of Haydn string quartets, with excellent sound.

Orchestra?

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Orchestra?

Don’t know - I’m fairly new to Roon. I was using Minimserver and have both “Orchestra” and “Ensemble” tags. Not sure if this is Roon or I mistagged this one. In general though I’m also struggling with how Roon wants to lump everyone from a soloist to conductor into “artist.” I’m used to being able to filter by conductor, soloists, orchestra, chorus, or ensemble.