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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....

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

<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.

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!

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.....

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.....

Her Mozart is delightful:


and if you haven't already done so then you might want to try:

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.

Jose Echenique wrote:

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.

Recent listening: Gardiner's version of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo....





....a wonderful version and that opeing sequence is to die for I think.

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 under Ozawa....