What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

More from this set with Purcell's complete sacred music :

   

[Harry]

Both recommendations from Jeffrey, and good ones at that.

Streaming Qobuz.

Anna Clyne, "Dance" for Cello and Orchestra.
Fazil Say, "1001 Nights in the Harem", Violin concerto, Grand Bazar, & China Rhapsody.

[Operafreak]

[prémont]

I want to know is Ton Koopman complete organ work 18 CDs this is at least 18 hours of music his a good move, this is what I thinks personally. 

Like all others Koopman's complete Bach set has it's pro's and contra's. Very positive is his choice of organs and his serious and comitted interpretation of the choral-bound works in general. In the choral-free works on the other hand he often (but not always) overstates the stylus fantasticus and his own exuberance and becomes irritating to listen to.

[Harry]

Like all others Koopman's complete Bach set has it's pro's and contra's. Very positive is his choice of organs and his serious and committed interpretation of the choral-bound works in general. In the choral-free works on the other hand he often (but not always) overstates the stylus fantasticus and his own exuberance and becomes irritating to listen to.

Agreed, that's also my problem with Ton Koopman.

[Harry]

Streaming.

Fortunato Chelleri.
6 Sonate di Galanteria.


This is very good, well played and recorded. Took me by surprise actually.

Orphaned at an early age, Fortunato Chelleri (1690-1757) was educated by his uncle Francesco Bazzani, the chapel master of Piacenza Cathedral, who taught him organ, harpsichord, and composition. He first became known in Italy as a composer of opera seria, but also wrote oratorios, cantatas, orchestral music, chamber music, and music for keyboard instruments during his time as Kapellmeister in Würzburg, a post he assumed in 1724. Unfortunately, most of his work has been lost.

The "6 Sonate di Galanteria" heard on this CD were written in the early 1720s, a time when a new style of composition called "galant" was taking hold. (This was a departure from the Baroque in which polyphony was less prominent and accompanied melody was preferred, making it a precursor to the later Classical period) The 6 sonatas reflect this style with their typical alternation of slow and fast movements and their monothematic, binary structure. Some of the movements are based on dance rhythms, including many minuets and some French-style allemandes. In the latter, Chelleri meticulously notates the "swing" or dotted rhythms that were implied but not notated according to the practice of French notes inégales at the time, suggesting that Chelleri wanted to write in a way that players outside the French harpsichord tradition could understand.

It thus represents a synthesis of the French, German, and (the lesser known) Italian harpsichord music of his time in a composer who incorporated all the compositional features he picked up, embellished, and reworked during his training in early 18th century Europe into the emerging galant style.

This album was recorded on a French-Flemish two-manual harpsichord built by Michael Johnson in 2006, a copy of a 1637 Ruckers instrument tuned to a=415 in Kirnberger III temperament, a common tuning for keyboard music of the mid-18th century.

Additional information:
- Recorded in 2017 in L'Aquila, Italy - The booklet includes a liner note by the artist in Italian and English, as well as his biography
- Fortunato Chelleri was orphaned at an early age and raised by his uncle Francesco Bazzani, maestro di cappella of Piacenza Cathedral, who took care of his musical education and taught him to compose as well as to play the organ and harpsichord.
- From 1700 to 1703 Chelleri was cantor in the choir of Parma Cathedral; later he became Kapellmeister, first in Florence, from 1724 in Würzburg, and from 1725 at the court of Frederick II in Kassel.
- Between 1707 and 1722 he achieved fame as a composer of opera seria, completing nineteen works that were performed in Italy, Spain, and Germany, gradually spreading his fame throughout Europe.
- While in Germany, Chelleri wrote oratorios, cantatas, orchestral music, chamber music, and music for keyboard instruments, but unfortunately most of his works have been lost.
- The six sonatas on this CD date from the early 1720s, a period in history characterized by a new style of composing known as "sonate di galanteria," in the gallant style. This style gave less importance to the complex polyphony and counterpoint of the Baroque, favoring instead the accompanied melody that would henceforth be the protagonist of classicism. The sonatas feature the typical alternation of slow and fast movements with a two-part monothematic structure. However, some movements are based on dance rhythms, and there is often a minuet and sometimes a French-style allemande.
- Played on the harpsichord by Luigi Chiarizia.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 25 & 26 Op. 79 & Op. 81a [Brautigam]

[Harry]

Fortunato Chelleri.

Simphonies Nouvelles Nr.1-6
Polonaise from "The Brussels Symphony" A Major.

Atlanta Fugiens Orchestra, Vanni Moretto.

Chelleri was a great imitator, and these "six new symphonies" are clearly six stylistic studies of the new fashions in Europe in the 1730s and 1740s. That they belong to the so-called Lombard style is confirmed by Burney's use of the words "from Milan" when quoting their author. The symphonic Chelleri uses clear, tight melody; his phrasing is clear and sharp.
This is really very good music and well performed and recorded, in fact I find this a sublime recording, and recommend  it wholeheartedly.

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No 60 in C major Il Distratto - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

[VonStupp]

Richard Strauss
Josephslegende, op. 63
Festmarsch, op. 1

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

All new works to me for this morning.

VS

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Good morning GMG folks

J
 

[Harry]

A new composer to me.

Peteris Barisons.

Symphonie Nr.2 "The Romantic".
Preludes for Orchestra Nr. 1-3.

Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Gintaras Rinkevicius.


Unknown to me, but very beautiful music, a keeper in my collection. Tonal and romantic well constructed, and full of melodic surprises.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Hanson
Symphony No. 4, Op. 34, "Requiem"
Oregon Symphony
Kalmar



Absolutely sublime. Along with the 3rd, this is my favorite Hanson symphony.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Zino Francescatti, violin
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein

[Todd]

Disc two.

[DavidW]

I want to know is Ton Koopman complete organ work 18 CDs this is at least 18 hours of music his a good move, this is what I thinks personally. 

No.  I own it.  It is hit and miss.  Some are great, some are terrible and everything inbetween.  There far more consistent box sets, and of course individually you could just pick the best for each one.  I bought it because I couldn't stream it.  If I could, I wouldn't have bought it!  I do have a far more positive impression of his Bach cantatas cycle, and in general I love his conducting of everything baroque but man I'm not in love with his organ set.

[DavidW]

Like all others Koopman's complete Bach set has it's pro's and contra's. Very positive is his choice of organs and his serious and comitted interpretation of the choral-bound works in general. In the choral-free works on the other hand he often (but not always) overstates the stylus fantasticus and his own exuberance and becomes irritating to listen to.

Perfectly stated.

[Traverso]

Webern

[Traverso]

Perfectly stated.

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