What are you listening two?

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Earlier, Trumpet Concertos from J. Haydn, M. Haydn, Torelli, Telemann, Neruda and Humphries all played by the great Crispian Steele-Perkins....


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Another 2 CD set that I have been dipping into recently; the Complete Cello Sonatas by Vivaldi performed here by Anthony Pleeth....


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<I am currently listening to one of my own favourite Mozart symphonies at the moment....No. 29.>

The greatest masterpiece ever composed by an 18 year old.

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Jose Echenique wrote:<I am currently listening to one of my own favourite Mozart symphonies at the moment....No. 29.>

The greatest masterpiece ever composed by an 18 year old.

Karl Böhm.
I cannot quite believe how young Mozart was when he composed some of his early symphonies, piano concertos and violin sonatas. It is astounding!
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Listening to Pires's delightful interpretations of Mozart's late sonatas. Wonderful! I think I have never really appreciated Pires fully. I will give her renditions more time from now on.....

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Peter wrote:Listening to Pires's delightful interpretations of Mozart's late sonatas. Wonderful! I think I have never really appreciated Pires fully. I will give her renditions more time from now on.....

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The Freiburger´s first XIX Century recording. This is puzzling, why hire a baby faced Spanish conductor virtually unknown in the period performance movement? Maybe because he is good? Well, I´ll tell you he is not bad, these are dynamic and very period performances (Brüggen or Immerseel sound more traditional in comparison). The Freiburgers sound glorious of course. Still a 50 minute cd is rather mean, especially when the 1st or 2nd symphonies could have been accommodated at these fastish speeds.
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The Freiburger´s first XIX Century recording. This is puzzling, why hire a baby faced Spanish conductor virtually unknown in the period performance movement? Maybe because he is good? Well, I´ll tell you he is not bad, these are dynamic and very period performances (Brüggen or Immerseel sound more traditional in comparison). The Freiburgers sound glorious of course. Still a 50 minute cd is rather mean, especially when the 1st or 2nd symphonies could have been accommodated at these fastish speeds.

No Pepe....simply because he is young enough to perform such a dramatic leap for the CD cover LOL!!!

Seriously....it sounds interesting.
I do agree that 50 minutes worth of music is short changing the public these days even if it is the Freiburgers.
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Recent listening: Gardiner's version of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo....


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....a wonderful version and that opeing sequence is to die for I think.
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Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 under Ozawa....


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