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Revisiting an old friend.

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Now playing this CD for a first listen ...

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I like Atterberg. My Dad and I are somewhat collectors of Cpo recordings, especially symphony cycles for this label. Here are what he and I own:

My Dad owns:

Atterberg: Complete Symphonies
Rangstrom: Complete Symphonies
Ries: Complete Symphonies

I own:

Villa-Lobos: Complete Symphonies
Pettersson: Complete Symphonies (just ordered today)
Hindemith: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Peterson-Berger: Complete Symphonies
Milhaud: Complete Symphonies
Pfiztner: Orchestral Works

I have Rangstrom Complete Symphonies as well.

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I have Rangstrom Complete Symphonies as well.

Since you said you're a big fan of Baroque and early music, what is about these two periods that you enjoy more than what came after them?

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Since you said you're a big fan of Baroque and early music, what is about these two periods that you enjoy more than what came after them?

Typically small ensemble performs in an intimate setting where individual virtuosity is critical.  I am also partial to choral works which are an essential part of baroque and early music.

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Typically small ensemble performs in an intimate setting where individual virtuosity is critical.  I am also partial to choral works which are an essential part of baroque and early music.

I guess I should have said is do you like the style of composition in those early days better as opposed to Romantic and 20th Century compositions?

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I guess I should have said is do you like the style of composition in those early days better as opposed to Romantic and 20th Century compositions?

Most definitely yes.  I do have 25 Beethoven Symphonies cycles, 10 Piano Sonatas cycles, 3 complete Mozart Symphonies sets and all the Wagner operas and multiple Ring cycles.  The point is, I do not ignore significant classical music composers ...

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Now playing this CD from my Purcell collection ...

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Most definitely yes.  I do have 25 Beethoven Symphonies cycles, 10 Piano Sonatas cycles, 3 complete Mozart Symphonies sets and all the Wagner operas and multiple Ring cycles.  The point is, I do not ignore significant classical music composers ...

Everybody has their own niche. I'm more into Romantic and 20th Century classical music. Mainly because I feel the music, in my opinion, is more of a reflection of the composer and their own emotions.

[Sid]

Some Elliot Carter to start off the day - the Naxos 100th Anniversary cd of chamber works played by the New Music Concerts Ensemble (Canada) under Robert Aitken. Works for solo instruments (eg. the quite well-known Gra for solo clarinet), as well as works for solo instruments with chamber ensemble - Mosaic (for harp) & Dialogues (for piano)...

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Richter playing Schubert's D.960

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Everybody has their own niche. I'm more into Romantic and 20th Century classical music. Mainly because I feel the music, in my opinion, is more of a reflection of the composer and their own emotions.

So Beethoven's music was not a reflection of himself and his feelings?  The Heiliger Dankgesang is just a technical exercise?  So, too, Mozart's D minor piano concerto?  Bach's cello suites? 

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Everybody has their own niche. I'm more into Romantic and 20th Century classical music. Mainly because I feel the music, in my opinion, is more of a reflection of the composer and their own emotions.

You can make the same argument for the baroque composers.  But there is one very important difference, baroque composers were a religious bunch while the (high) classical and romantic composers generally were not.  Beethoven and Brahms did not show much of their religious sides until the last movement of the 9th Symphony and the Deutsche Requiem ...

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Most definitely yes.  I do have 25 Beethoven Symphonies cycles, 10 Piano Sonatas cycles, 3 complete Mozart Symphonies sets and all the Wagner operas and multiple Ring cycles.  The point is, I do not ignore significant classical music composers ...

Except for those "modern" composers.

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Afanassiev playing Schubert's D.894

I LOVE this recording.

Found my Schubert Sonatas.



It's just so excessive. It's awesome.

[Brian]

Stuart, Mirror, Don:

People prefer different eras and that's natural. I think for all of us, we have genres, or styles, or centuries, that we just like best. And we can find reasons that we like them - patterns that unite them. I think of the extraordinary post by Edward last week uniting Shostakovich's Ninth and Sibelius' Sixth as exemplars of ambiguous music that the composers don't want you to "get." It makes it possible to say, "The music that interests me most is music that X/Y/Z."

But I don't think it's good to generalize about eras, for instance baroque composers being more religious (Benjamin Britten!), or romantic composers being more "personal" (Beethoven! Minor-key Mozart!). And I hope I never come across as evangelizing for one era, or chastising people for liking one and not another, or saying that any era does something better than all the others.

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DVORAK | Serenade for Strings
Prague Chamber Orchestra

[Que]

I never worry about from what period the music is I mostly listen to. I've happily indulged in Baroque and Early Music, harpsichord music in particular, for the past two years now!
Undoubtedly in another two years time I'll be focused on totally different music. 

Untill then more of the good stuff, this morning:



Q

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Gregor Josph WERNER (1695 - 1766)   Musicalischer Instrumental-Calendar
This is a delightful collection of 12 short suites, one for each month, with 4 or 5 movements each.  Like Vivaldi's Four Seasons, there are appropriate evocations of the weather and seasonal activities, the signs of the zodiac, and the changing of the hours of day and night in the minuets with equal numbers of bars in March and September, the number of bars in the opening and answering phrases increasing or decreasing appropriately.
Werner preceded Haydn at Eisenstadt from 1728 until his death.
The Consilum Musicum Wien use string instruments from 1722 to 1785.

[Harry]

Francesco Maria Veracini.

6 Sonate a Flauto solo e Basso.
Arcadia.
Christoph Ehrsam, Flauto dolce in F, (Shige Hirao 1984)
Attillio Cremonesi, Cembalo in Stile Italiano, Edwin Meyer.
Eunice Brandao, Viola da Gamba, Guy Derat (1985) Copy of Michael Colichon 1693.

Veracini was a very cultured man, that had many sensible things to say, and was considered a genius in his time, which he is, if you listen to the works on this CD. It may come over as easy listening music, but make no mistake, it is very well crafted. Easy on the ear does not mean, compositions without value. It takes quite a effort to bring this off well, and I am happy to say, that that requirement is met full 100%, thats why I mentioned the instruments used, for they play a important role in the sound. These musicians who recorded this in 1991 where on the top of their art, for I seldom heard such grace and harmony in the music of Veracini. All of them make this CD a feast to listen to. I played it many times, and it will go in my collection, and I full well know I will probably never play it again in my lifetime. It makes me incredibly sad! But so many other recordings are waiting to be played, that I have hardly time to immerse myself into overwhelming sadness, but the sting was felt nevertheless.

[Harry]

Gregor Josph WERNER (1695 - 1766)   Musicalischer Instrumental-Calendar
This is a delightful collection of 12 short suites, one for each month, with 4 or 5 movements each.  Like Vivaldi's Four Seasons, there are appropriate evocations of the weather and seasonal activities, the signs of the zodiac, and the changing of the hours of day and night in the minuets with equal numbers of bars in March and September, the number of bars in the opening and answering phrases increasing or decreasing appropriately.
Werner preceded Haydn at Eisenstadt from 1728 until his death.
The Consilum Musicum Wien use string instruments from 1722 to 1785.

Thats a very interesting recording, thanks for posting it, let me see if I can find it.