#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Here is an album which would like to be the first in a series. Very fine playing of very fine music, I hope their dream is realized; we know there is enough music still remaining in Dresden to entertain us for a long time!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic The Graun's wrote enough fine oboe concertos that other fine ones were attributed to them too. Löffler excels in realizing works from this era, and this album joins several of her others in showing what a prime time this was for oboe music! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic There was an entire class, apparently, of keyboard sonatas intended for amateurs, and for teachers to use as lessons, that was called 'Easy Sonatas'. Looking back from today's POV, one wonders just how good these 'beginners' were! Lovely works... 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic In 1750's Berlin, there were more than a few excellent violinists, but none could touch the work of yet another Benda Brother, Franz. Among modern violin players, there are few that surpass Anton Steck. A fine combination for these interesting works!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Some especially fine realizations of the growth of keyboard concertos in the time just before Mozart showed up to define it for posterity. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Going back in time from the 'Viennese Classic Era', we discover a period in mid-century where the symphony was evolving away from the curtain-opening sinfonia and becoming a highlight of the evening. These Mannheimers played a big part in all that. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Listening to some Beck: it's interesting how these from the mid 1760's could easily be mistaken for the 1780's. Beck was clearly ahead of his time. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic The new Haydn is here, the new Haydn is here!! 😍 The c minor #52 leads off and sounds great. Haven't got to the Arvo part, ahem, Pärt, yet, but Antonini's penchant for tossing in some modern pieces has paid off well in the past, so we shall see. 😜🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Haydn's peak for quartet writing; Op 50 and everything after it are all on that same plane. I'm very partial to the Festetics style too, they manage quite nicely to not sound like a tuxedoed recital as much as an evening's pleasure!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Hard not to be very partial to Mozart's Quintets, especially since there are so many fine realizations around these days. I've always liked these, they seem to capture a sense of the times for me. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Perhaps you have come across this series, I think there are 10 albums in it, I have 5 of them. It's a great representation of many of the first-rate Bohemian musicians who populated the orchestras of Europe. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Apparently, Weiss was the Jimi Hendrix of 1715! Music beloved far and wide. His solo lute music has survived en masse, but his concerted works are very rare. Here are a few, and some reconstructed. Very nice. Maybe not Purple Haze nice, but nice! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic @jwfleck.bsky.social brought this to my attention the other day, first listening now. There are 2 of Telemann's specialty Overture-Suites, along with varied sonatas, all played marvelously. Very nice afternoon fare! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic It seems Schaffrath is finally getting some acknowledgement as a fine composer, I believe this is a new release, recommended to me just the other day by @musicadeidonum.bsky.social , my go-to for reviews of the music I especially like, like this!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic An interesting (& well-played) 3 CD set containing all the pieces he wrote for keyboard that were NOT either a sonata or a set of variations. I dot there is anything that hasn't been heard before, but it is a superior collection, & all in one place! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic The first time I discovered what an extraordinarily accomplished clavichordist Hogwood was is when I happened across his CPE Bach disc. So when the release of this one came along, I had it preordered, a rarity for me. Very nice playing & instruments!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Dresden, ca. 1720. Many of my favorites are there, and while the weather rages outside, it's a pleasant afternoon indeed in here. If you know the Winter & Winter label, the production values here are also right up to standard! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic From Berlin to Vienna, the keyboard was the dominant instrument, even in the Age of the Violin. Nothing was more personal than the clavichord, and these composers made the most of that feeling. Lovely album! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic It has just been an Hautbois-esque sort of day, maybe it's that cool music playing... 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Another dip into the seemingly bottomless well of Telemann's creativity. These are wind soloists, Traverso, Oboe & Bassoon mainly, with a mix of continuo & non-continuo styles. Excellent playing, without a doubt. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Trying to learn something about 18th century French harpsichord music can be a daunting task. So I've determined to pitch right in and do it, Rameau appearing to be a good start. In fact, it's a great start! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic It's interesting to see how composers then were actually appreciated over a far greater range than we normally associate them with. This second Zefiro album certainly shows Dresden to be more cosmopolitan than we/I would have expected for ca. 1720! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I thought it was Venetian music, but in fact, it's mainly Dresden music or music specially written for Dresden by Veracini, Vivaldi, Lotti and the like. As always with Zefiro, the playing is outstanding; after an hour I'm primed for my own Grand Tour!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Cambini, another Italian composer who left home to see the world. He ended up in Paris and became an overnight favorite at the Concerts Spirituel. Although he produced his share of chamber music it was Sinfonias concertante that sealed his fame.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic "He also ... performed at court with Pietro Locatelli. This may have been an enactment of the battle between the French & Italian styles which so interested the period. Lustig recounted "Leclair played ‘like an angel’ and Locatelli ‘like a devil’" 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic With so many Italian violinists vying to be known as 'Il più grande di tutti i tempi' (Greatest of All Time), it's a wonder how steeped in music the country was! Nardini was Tartini's finest pupil, which some felt gave him a legit claim. I dunno...🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Revisiting a recent acquisition, always like to remind myself when something is especially nice or interesting, and this is both. This is definitely a recommendable album for anyone who enjoys Italian Baroque in general and violin music in particular!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Much has been made of Haydn & Mozart's love of the viola, which in Vienna was less than common. Meanwhile, up north, an arc ranging from Hamburg to Berlin to Dresden appears to have been a hotbed of viola lovers. I'm enjoying these now!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic While it's classed as "Late Baroque", this chamber music is every bit as developed and far removed from Baroque as we think of it, it satisfies as much as anything from the "Classical" era. The great arc of 18th century music is well presented here!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I pulled this out todfay thinking to hear some Graun Trio Sonatas, which it has here, but so much more! Some who have grown in my estimation since I first got this. Album now refiled... 😶‍🌫️🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic The sonatas for keyboard & violin Mozart composed in Mannheim in 1778 (K 296 & 301-303 & 305) are among the most poignant of his early maturity. This duo have used excellent scholarship along with fine instruments & technique to realize them!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I suppose my taste for Oboe has manifested by now, & the early to middle 18th was a golden age of sorts, carefully sitting inside so much violin music! Besozzi is one of those names which would occur instantly to his peers, too bad he's rare today! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Leclair was one of the premier violinists in mid-century France, but even he had stages of improvement. The violin sonatas from his final opus, Book 4, are hard to beat, and these realizations of them are first rate. Sweet! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Fasch was a whiz with Orchestral Suites, though his employer had little use for them, he distributed them through his network of friends like Telemann and the Berlin & Dresden orchestras. A considerable cache was recently discovered, containing these.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic More Telemann : more Dombrecht. Some especially fine chamber music for oboe, violes and BC. A very nice ensemble here, making the entire even finer! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Telemann had as much facility with the oboe as with any other instrument, which is to say, more than most! Well demonstrated here by Dombrecht, with excellent backup from the band. Just right for a brisk, sunny April afternoon! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Accent has provided a fine selection of 18th century French flautists, Les Buffardins presents fine realizations of this tasty treat. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Very few contemporary composers could match Graupner's capability when it came to writing for the bassoon. Very few musicians can match Azzolini's capability when it comes to Baroque Bassoon. This album appears to buttress my assertions. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Here is another of those composers who, once one actually gets to listen to them and learns a bit about, one wonders how and why they can have descended to such near total obscurity. Just saying...🤠

#ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic Enjoying now, although I missed it 'live'. www.youtube.com/live/hEmFFW9... 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic When he was just a kid (so to say), #KeyboardKris released what I still think is his best album. All your minor key favorites are right here, nicely realized! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic In addition to the excellent playing of these oft-performed works, I'm delighted with the scholarship that went into them as well, something too often overlooked in both liner note writing and making performance material. Easily my favorites! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic One of the finer reaizations of Mozart's wind ensemble music, ranging from the 5 Sextets from Salzburg to the Gran Partita, we see/hear another example of how his works just outstripped others of the same genre. The period winds here sound fabulous!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Fux is mainly known for his church & choral music, as well as his (still in use today!) book on writing counterpoint, "Gradus ad Parnassum". But he also was highly regarded for his secular music, like these Trio & Quattro Sonatas & Sinfonias. 👍🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic For those who fought in the Great HIP Wars, learning that a large faction of music fans believe that when Haydn specified 'Basso' in the first string quartets, he actually meant Basso (Violone), not Cello. AFAIK, this is the only album exploring this.🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Mannheim didn't only produce orchestral music, but also some fine chamber pieces, like these Quartets for 2 Clarinets, Horn & Bassoon by Tausch. One thing both genres had in common, though, is an abundance of very fine music for winds! 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic If for some reason you haven't happened upon this series of re-releases by Capella Coloniensis, they are commendable for many reasons, not least being their choice of repertoire, very tasty. 🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic If it's new & unique, you can count on Telemann to be there for it. Here's a chance for me/you to hear a 'Basson Chalumeau' for possibly the first time! It begs attention to the fact that even though modern music leans on tech, so did the old guys!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic One of the things I noticed when listening to these very early works by the 2 preeminent designers of the Mannheim Style is that the ideas for embellishment and the overall playing style were built in from the start. I would be delighted to hear more!🤠

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic The Italian expatriate community thrived (throve? 😶‍🌫️) in the 18th century, including D. Scarlatti, Boccherini, & this highly talented composer as well, Gaetan Brunetti. Along with some very popular symphonies, his chamber music also pleases. These... 🤠