#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Some of the finest wind music of the era was coming out of Dresden. Zefiro do a great job making you think you were right there listening to Pisendel et al. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic ib mid-1790's, Clementi was among the most famous piano composers in Europe. The works on this album epitomize his style of the time. The player here is one of my favorites, her Wölfl is also outstanding. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic For some reason I've always tended to class Clementi as 19thC., but I recently reviewed his pianoforte oeuvre & realized all the sonatas before Op 40, the actual bulk of his work, was composed by 1800. He was quite a progressive! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic A style developed early mid-century, in essence the continuo of the trio sonata was covered alternately by one or the other violin whilst the other took the melody. Except when they were truly duetting, of course. The result is highly entertaining! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic A taste of 1786 Paris, one of Haydn's ever-popular 'Paris' Symphonies along with a pair of Sinfonias concertante that were le goût du jour (aside from Haydn, that is). This band has done an excellent cycle of these symphonies, accompanied this way.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Along with his pioneering symphonies, Stamitz also wrote one of the earliest clarinet concertos. Very nice recreation of them here! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Richter spent a busy 80 years spanning most of the century. He was one of the pioneering figures in the 'Mannheim School', but also one of the first Baroque masters to lead right up to 'Classical' style. These are solo sonatas in the Baroque sense.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic One doesn't often get to hear Baroque Trumpet music played on a Baroque Trumpet, but here's some, and it really encompasses some of the top names of the time and some really impressively realized music!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Early times, Carnival began in Vienna on 2 February, which would have been yesterday. Composers ranging from Anonymous to the crème de la crème of the Emperor's composers wrote interesting accompaniments. An unusual treat! Some nice Matteis included 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I can't escape the notion that as much as I enjoy all the venues for performance & style, there is nothing I enjoy more than Hausmusik. Though not at first apparent, the Bassett Horn trios & the songs, sonatas, little concertos here were all as one!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Sometimes one can come away thinking the only 2 composers in Vienna were Haydn & Mozart, but even their combined efforts couldn't have produced the thousands of works extant from the last third of the century. Some of it is actually excellent! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Two of the premier violinists in pre-1750 France. The nice thing to go along with, is that both were imaginative, artistic composers as well. An evening in the chamber with these would be most pleasant!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Couldn't leave Tartini with just a few sonatas though, needed some concertos for the day, and who better? This set on Dynamic really is brilliant, though not Brilliant (sorry 🙄). Good music makes for a good day! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic What an interesting album. It goes back to the very beginning of the era of public (so-called, though prohibitiverly expensive) entertainment in London. One of its objectives was to play British music as well as popular Continental favorites. Nice! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Tartini is so well known for concertos that it's easy to forget his first-rate sonatas! Chandler is best known for his excellent Vivaldi, but his Tartini is no slouch either. A Devil's Trill to rival Manze! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic An excellent realization of these works. The Quintet is especially good, Neidich plays the smoothest sounding Basset Clarinet you're likely to hear, Robert Levin on the fortepiano and L'Archibudelli are all right on too. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Gottlieb, son of Georg, continued the tradition of Austrian organ playing. He was the Emperor's Own organist during the high point of the Viennese Baroque, from 1717 until he retired in 1764. As you can hear here, he writes a mean toccata! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Although they were overlooked for 175 yrs, Haydn's Keyboard Trios are finally getting the attention they just ly deserve. These are really fine realizations, and include both some flute trios and some violin ones also. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic From the early 18th on, Rebel was one of the top violinists in France. His music is a pleasing blend of contemporary French style with Italian style blended in. These trio sonatas really give a feel for where chamber music was heading ca 1734.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Known primarily as a keyboardist, Schaffrath followed the example of many of his peers in Berlin and wrote for other instruments as well, as we hear with these lovely little orchestral suites, string symphonies & concerto for Traverso. 👍🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic An interesting idea (from an historical POV), and some very nice music I never heard before. You can't beat that! 🤠

Great. Now you're giving them ideas! Matter of time before they pull this one off. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I heard, not long ago, that Leclair wrote a mean Trio Sonata. So I am embarking upon this new acquisition on the basis of 'trust, but verify'. I hear so much great "new" music this way. 🤠

* compatriot here meaning 'not the ancestor of the clarinet, but a littermate which succeeded'. 😏🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic So I couldn't just run off to Darmstadt, as it were, without having another listen to the chalumeaux here. Graupner was one of the earliest and most prolific composers for the instrument. Overall very nice sound, no wonder its compatriot* hit it big!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic One of the more interesting composers of the first half of the 18th was this Capellmeister from Darmstadt. His music rocks, really! This suite of Tafelmusik is very entertaining, as it should be, & also superbly realized here, as it must be! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic As I was in Berlin listening to Emanuel Bach, it seemed timely to have a listen to some further Trio Sonatas by his peers. Most satisfying. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Emanuel Bach certainly wrote his share of Trio Sonatas. This set is played by a flute and a violin, blending the classic sound, whch was just violins, with the newer addition of the traverso for a different and novel tone color. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic IMO, Bach's finest effort with symphonies. Like he cast all his inhibitions to the wind and wrote what he imagined. Gli Incogniti and Beyer play it superbly well, too. Definitely a treat you would enjoy!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Not to disrespect any ensemble, but there is only 1 British group that plays Italian music like Italian groups do, and this is it! Italian music was popular among Northern cognoscenti, enough so that it couldn't fail to influence them. Like here...🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic 18thC "Germany" was not one country but many tiny ones, few with kings. There were a few composers working towards unifying musical taste, but most were not. Telemann was one with both the desire & talent to make this happen. King of the Trio Sonata!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I always get a lot of enjoyment from Boccherini's music, especially when they are played as well as these. Nice company for an afternoon. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I recently got the companion disc to this one, Trio Sonatas. The primary difference is the inclusion of a slow intro, alla Corelli. But more like "Corelli does galant". The more I hear from this composer, the higher he rises in my esteem! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Beautiful tone colors! This is 18thC chamber music at its finest. While the informative notes give great info on instruments, dates and locations are omitted, so I will venture early 1720s, Dresden. Violas d'Amore, Oboes d'Amore, Chalumeaux; splendid!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic When considering Fux, the first thing to leap to mind is either Church music or his book "Gradus ad Parnassum" from which so many classicists learned to compose. But he also had a substantial corpus of chamber music, like these excellent trio sonatas.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic A particular pet peeve involves mentioning a composer and hearing back "oh, he's ok but he's no (pick one) Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven; you know who I mean. So when I say I really like Michael Haydn, well, he's no Joseph! Very nice music though.😏🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Any music by Tausch is worth seeking out, though you won't find much. Or the chamber music piece on here by J Stamitz, which doubled the amount I had before I discovered this super album. Period clarinets & horns! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Of the many fine composers coming out of Mannheim, by far the majority wrote Symphonies & Concertos, or their hybrid offspring the Sinfonia concertante. But Danzi is a fine exception to the rule; his chamber music is first rate, like here.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Whenever I get started on Scarlatti's sonatas, I'm reminded of the old ad for crisps: bet you can't eat just one! Sometimes I CAN listen to 1 ... disc. 😏🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Good day to lock myself up in the music room. Brilliant start to my listening session, some of the most dramatic works of the later 18th. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic A form which has faded over the intervening centuries, but one which was very popular in its time, contributions to the Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello repertoire were made by virtually every good & great composer into the 1800s. A fine sampling here!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Although I haven't seen anything from her in recent years, Mullova was top shelf a few years ago, and playing Vivaldi with Il Giardino Armonico certainly did nothing to harm that! Powerful sound, technically very fine playing, nice old album.🤠

Delighted to be working with Leith Hill Music Festival this spring #choirs #choralmusic #musicfestivals

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Happy New Year to all of you who celebrate...

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Happy New Year to all of you who celebrate...

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I know, it doesn't seem reasonable to expect an organ concerto from circa 1750 to either rock or roll. Contrary to that, these do, although I am unsure which it is. In any case, as you have every right to expect, Piccolo Concerto Wien does too!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Well, the title sums it up nicely; The Passion. Of course they couldn't call it that without Haydn's Symphony #49, but the balance of the album consists of concert scenas by the 3 protagonist composers, all my favorites are there! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I'm especially fond of music for Violone (Viennese double-bass), and I don't get a lot of opportuities to hear much of it. Here is the exception that proves the rule though. Sinclair's facility on his instrument even allows him to play cello music!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Haydn. Op 33. Written in a new way. The true beginning of the Classic Era. So goes the origin story. But the only origin story these works need is to have a top-drawer quartet sit down and realize them. As here. No stretch at all to hear Haydn playing🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic It may have been due to maturing in Bohemia, the Land of the Horn, that Haydn became a true master of composition for it. In addition to symphonies with 4 parts for horn, he also wrote some excellent chamber music. Here's the pinnacle.🤠