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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic A Quadro. Nearly always called in the time for 3 'voices' and basso continuo, but in this case composed by Telemann for 2 Traverso Flutes & 2 Cellos, no continuo! For those who know their music history, this was the end of 'Baroque' music! Cool! 😎🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic I've been enjoying this excellent album today. Not only top shelf music, but also very well played. 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic Actually, both the Benda Bros were at the soirée, & we were treated to this superb c minor sonata for violin. This is definitely an album to enjoy! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic I made a little playlist for a salon at Weimar in 1776, Some CPE Bach, F. Benda, Graun, Hertel, Schaffrath; all the best of the time. And finishing up with this excellent harpsichord sonata. I'm supposing if I was a streamer, this is what you do? 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And no, I didn't see the Savall news, that's a good thing, even if you aren't a streamer. I always hope for a fair shake for artists, without which there would be nothing worth getting up for! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tafelmusik Media, it appears. This is the only album I've got from that label, but I will look for others.

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I watch their channel (and Bremen Baroque & Tempesta di Mare) many evenings, and I see them playing a lot of things that I've never seen recordings of. I think they have their own label now, that would be the place to look, I suppose. 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I watched that video just last night! Lina did a great little visit with them. That's a lovely piece! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic The final volume of Rowland's traversal of Soler's amazing oeuvre! As advanced as Scarlatti was, and he was, Soler seems even more so. Mainly multi-movement works, one can see and hear growth right through the galant/pre-classic style. Very nice! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic In the early days of Amon Ra Records, they put out some of the best recordings ever. Seixas was a student of Scarlatti who elected to remain in Lisbon when the rest of the court headed off to Spain. Wooley plays this fabulous, authentic 1785 cembalo.🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic Marcel Ponseele, one of the leaders in Baroque oboes, playing the finest music of the time when Bach & Handel were still working nearby, & Telemann was becoming the biggest name of the German Baroque. This is an excellent album for double-reed lovers! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic Hard to find a more interesting clavichord disc than this one! Cerasi is a very fine player, and the 1784 Christian Gotthelf Hoffmann clavichord she plays has just superb sound. Not to mention that the music is pretty fine, too!🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This shows the problem that arises by attempting a literal translation of words which have evolved their own specialized meaning. Though various parts of both of these words have a root meaning, cello piccolo has an evolved accepted meaning beyond that. I only spoke French as a child so been there.🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic Time to revisit this highly entertaining tour of northern German areas during the age of the cello piccolo. Very nice music, and the sound of the instrument(s) has elements of uniqueness. 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic I'm working on 2 projects at once, one is assembling an overview of 18th c instrumental music, excepting vocal music because the scope is so broad. The other is to be able to reenact some early Concert Spirituel concerts. What to do? Motets, anyone?🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic As long as we are on Flute Concertos, as a point of fact, Quantz really was the top of the line in German countries. ANd so is Rachel Brown!🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes it is, *tres Galant*. The mysterious Scheibe was a foremost proponent of "new" style music, in fact he wrote a scathing review of some of JS Bach's work that still offers amusement today. 😄🤠 His music really is good, but there is so little surviving that almost no one seems to have heard it! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic SO here is something that I must believe is new, serendipity works so nicely sometimes. I wanted to learn a bit about Agrell, but I also found 2 extreme rarities by Scheibe and some Hasse, one of my favorites! CC is directed by a very young Manze! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic During his long career in Mainz, Sterkel was one of the finest, smoothest keyboardists in Europe. Beethoven even modeled his playing on Sterkel's after hearing him play while still in his Bonn years. This is a nice album for Keyboard & Violin fans!🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Actually called among musicologists "the great bassoon fart joke". 😄🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic "And thus it happened that (Telemann's) Collegium Musicum played concerts »at Mr Gottfried Zimmermann's, on Wednesdays from 4 to 6 o’clock in the garden during the summer..." that & the music were Telemann's legacy to Leipzig! And a fine album for me! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic By 1755, Mondonville was Director of the Concert Spirituel, making him very influential in the prevailing music scene. He was both a fine composer, especially of big vocal works, but also a virtuoso violinist. Great now for an afternoon thunderstorm! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic In the 1770's & '80's, the Prussian intelligentsia weren't gathering to hear Frederick play old fashioned flute music at SansSouci, they were in Weimar, with his sister, Anna Amalia, enjoying a whole different level of music & chat. Hässler was there!🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Back when I listened to modern music, Onslow was among my favorites, these symphonies, and also the very fine chamber music that was his specialty. His quartets and quintets are very entertaining.🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#MyDailyDose #ClassicalMusic #18thCenturyMusic You may not have heard of Somis, he was a premier Italian violin teacher in the early 18th. His students, Leclair, Guignon & Guillemain, were the major violinists in France at the mid century. Turns out Somis could compose too. Teacher & students here!🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Me too! Thanks for the 👍🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic And finally, JC Bach and his cohort enter the scene. And Geminiani, actually developing a method for English Guitar. Such a fine variety, North Germans cheek by jowl with touring Italians. An interesting time. I hope La Rêveuse decide to do circa 1780🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic One of the things I like most about this one is the inclusion of several of Oswald's Scots Songs from his hugely popular Caledonian Pocket Companion. Most of them are very familiar since I did a deep dive on Haydn's, but they are still different.🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Making my way a second time through this set of 3 albums, more slowly this time to savor the nuance. And there is a lot of nuance to savor! There should be more albums of this type which help recreate a time and place we can otherwise only imagine.🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic While in Dresden to check out Heinichen, it seemed the logical step to catch some Pisendel while I was there. Concerto Köln sure did well by him, this is a superb album! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Original Naples versions of these Notturni are thin on the ground, but Haydn wisely saved the originals & rewrote them when he needed music in London. These London versions use flute & oboe in place of the Lira organizzata & a few other updates. 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Well the snail mail was far more expeditious than usual! Had to do some interesting studying even to be able to tag the newly ripped files, but it was worth the effort to find some background on these super 'concerti a molto istromenti'. 👍🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And that is the killer. Of course, I still have the 4 disk box set of "Mozart's 50 Greatest Hits" that began my odyssey 35 years ago, how could I get rid of that? 🙄🙄🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ooh, what a splendid idea! A classical flea market! 😁 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic At this stage in their careers, the Kuijken Bros were top rank HIP/PI players. The record biz has come a long way since, styles develop and change, but despite all that, for me they still ARE top-rank! Of course, it helps to have great music to play!🤠

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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here’s a truth that lands harder every year.

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes, those are very good performances to discover this music by. The 3 works on it cover almost 25 years of his career, the Keyboard & Violin work is from ca. 1756, #3 is from ca 1769, and #11 from ca 1780. It's interesting to see how competent he always was from first to last. 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic Not known for his concertos. That's the Joseph Haydn story in a nutshell. Of all the things which went in his favor during his long career, and there were many, his timing in writing keyboard concertos directly competed with Mozart. I doubt he cared.🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic A name infrequently heard, matching his music, sadly. Short life, 1750-1791. Learned his music in Berlin (from Kirnberger!), but his name must have been mentioned somewhere, as he was immediately offered a Royal appointment in the Netherlands. Sweet!🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well, I pulled the trigger on a "Used - Like New". You were right, the prices were comparable. Now I should have it next week. (just saying so long to instant gratification... 🥲) 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks, I'll check it out. I hate buying physical media, but sometimes it's inevitable... 😱🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Absolutely, it's high on my wishlist. (Waiting for Presto to have it on sale... 😜) 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I've been looking around for a while for an album of just Heinichen music, rather than the 8 or 9 I have with just 1 work each. Finally found one, and it's realized by one of my favorite groups. They play 1 on a part, just the way I like it! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic As time goes by, I discover more and more of Telemann's oeuvre, and it is amazingly large and high quality, moreso than one would imagine could be produced by one man! These Trios & Quartets are diverse and very entertaining! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic I've posted about Wolf before, his clavichord sonatas are wonderful. He was the family musicus for Frederick the Great's sister's family, Princess Anna Amalia. He was also Franz Benda's son-in-law, so fair to say he was an insider who lived up to it! 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He was also the Concertmaster for Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss, when they made that brilliant series of Haydn orchestral works, originally for Koch/Schwann, but remastered for 2009 by BIS. Some of the finest Haydn recordings ever made! And we both know about his Telemann. 🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh. I thought it was an application to join MAGA. My bad...🙄🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No, I didn't actually, but I certainly have a fine representation of his work here! Ole Simon got around, I'm often surprised to see him pop up, I suppose I shouldn't be!😊🤠

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Gurn Blanston @gurnb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic In the process of digitizing my CD collection, I discover albums I haven't listened to in years bacause I never ripped them. How did that happen? Anyway, it's always a pleasure to hear an old favorite like it is a new album! Like this gem...🤠

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