Your Favourite Purchases & Musical Discoveries of 2022

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Quote from: Mandryka on January 01, 2023, 03:42:05 AMDuo Enssle Lamprecht - Songs of an Anonymous Lover

Their "Tesserae" is also quite good.
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Brian

I'm going through my listening log now wrapping up my 2022 musical diary.

Here, roughly chronologically, are my favorite works I explored for the first time ever in 2022, and composers I discovered or dove deeper into than previously:

- the complete Boccherini guitar quintets (not just the famous one)
- Grumiaux/Klien Mozart violin sonatas
- Pavel Vranicky / Paul Wranitzky
- the complete Cherubini string quartets (incredible edition on BIS)
- Krommer wind partita octets
- Hummel septets and piano quintet
- Hyperion romantic violin concertos by Stanford, Lassen, Scharwenka, and Langgaard
- Mahler 7
- Gunnar de Frumerie (had never heard of him before!)
- Bartok solo piano music (Zoltan Kocsis Big Box)
- Ernesto Halffter
- Rodrigo's Per la flor del lliri blau, for wind/brass band
- Jan Novak (thank you, Daverz!)
- recordings by the Czech Nonet
- the entire Naxos Brazil series, but particularly the choros of Camargo Guarnieri and the symphonies of Claudio Santoro
- Anders Eliasson
- Guillaume Connesson's Cosmic Trilogy
- the orchestration skill of Kenneth Hesketh
- ongoing project to listen to the complete Kalevi Aho

Also had my first listen to some other major works, like Haydn's Creation and Mahler's Das Lied, that will no doubt grow on me over time.

Todd

Quote from: Brian on January 01, 2023, 08:51:28 AMAlso had my first listen to some other major works, like Haydn's Creation and Mahler's Das Lied, that will no doubt grow on me over time.

Or they may not.  Which is OK.  I will say, though, that hearing The Creation in person may give you a different impression of the work.  Along with Petrushka and DSCH 11, after hearing it live, hearing it on disc just never satisfies as much.
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Brian

Purchases of the year

Kocsis Big Box
Les ballets russes box from Warner

New recordings of the year

Beethoven and Mozart / Paul Wee
Montgeroult / Clare Hammond
Reynaldo Hahn / Pavel Kolesnikov
Naxos Brazil series
Brahms sextets / Belcea, Zimmermann, Queyras

Quote from: Todd on January 01, 2023, 09:00:28 AMOr they may not.  Which is OK.  I will say, though, that hearing The Creation in person may give you a different impression of the work.  Along with Petrushka and DSCH 11, after hearing it live, hearing it on disc just never satisfies as much.
I know this to be very true of DSCH 11. Hopefully the live opportunity arises.

kyjo

Quote from: Brian on January 01, 2023, 08:51:28 AMI'm going through my listening log now wrapping up my 2022 musical diary.

Here, roughly chronologically, are my favorite works I explored for the first time ever in 2022, and composers I discovered or dove deeper into than previously:

- the complete Boccherini guitar quintets (not just the famous one)
- Grumiaux/Klien Mozart violin sonatas
- Pavel Vranicky / Paul Wranitzky
- the complete Cherubini string quartets (incredible edition on BIS)
- Krommer wind partita octets
- Hummel septets and piano quintet
- Hyperion romantic violin concertos by Stanford, Lassen, Scharwenka, and Langgaard
- Mahler 7
- Gunnar de Frumerie (had never heard of him before!)
- Bartok solo piano music (Zoltan Kocsis Big Box)
- Ernesto Halffter
- Rodrigo's Per la flor del lliri blau, for wind/brass band
- Jan Novak (thank you, Daverz!)
- recordings by the Czech Nonet
- the entire Naxos Brazil series, but particularly the choros of Camargo Guarnieri and the symphonies of Claudio Santoro
- Anders Eliasson
- Guillaume Connesson's Cosmic Trilogy
- the orchestration skill of Kenneth Hesketh
- ongoing project to listen to the complete Kalevi Aho

Also had my first listen to some other major works, like Haydn's Creation and Mahler's Das Lied, that will no doubt grow on me over time.

Great list, Brian! Big thumbs-up for Frumerie, Halffter, Guarnieri, Santoro, and Connesson especially.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Mookalafalas

I was very slow to buy this, and then got it more out of curiosity than high expectations. However, I'm about 2/3 of the way through it now, and it has been a delight.
It's all good...

Jo498

Not much. I cannot think of any real new discovery, apparently nothing sufficiently striking to remain in memory...
Within standard repertoire, I revisited Mozart's incredible piano concerti (and a little also the sonatas) and bought a bunch of recordings, among these about half of the Barenboim/Berlin, despite having already quite a few (including the older Barenboim/English Chamber).
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- Blaise Pascal

DavidW

The Segerstam Pettersson recordings

The Haydn 2032 Project

The Haitink Mahler Christmas Concerts

de Vriend's Beethoven

Solti's Ring

vandermolen

Arnold/Bax (Get it?) :-)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Daverz


vandermolen

Quote from: Daverz on February 16, 2023, 12:14:08 PMShould we start an early 2023 thread?
I think that I ordered it in 2022. Does that count?  8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Daverz

Quote from: vandermolen on February 17, 2023, 12:53:55 AMI think that I ordered it in 2022. Does that count?  8)

Dangerous messing with the time stream.  :o