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Heinichen: Dresden Concerti

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I love this wonderfull cd! If you like baroque horn music, and especially Quantz and Telemann, you will love this CD. The parts for the French Horn are well played for being played on authentic instruments. This is a must for the Baroque listener

It's a few years since this set won the Gramophone Award, but hearing it again very recently, it still provides a thrilling listening experience.

I'm not normally a lover of prominent brass instruments in early music where the sonorities are often too lean and bright for my taste. Well, there's plenty of brightness here, but it all comes from the sparkle and energy of an orchestra at the very top of its form.

I wouldn't say this is a set to listen to at one sitting. Better to pick and choose two or three concertos at a time. Or better still, go for the excitement of progamming just the allegros and hold on to your seat as the rhythms and stratospheric brass catapult you into the midst of the hunt.

Great stuff.

This is a superb recording. The performances are vibrant and the quality of the recording is stunning. There is a warmth and fullness that is often missing in recordings of period instruments. The ensemble sounds HUGE. I particularly like the second movement of the Concerto in F (S. 234). Oboes are used instead of strings as the accompaniment to the flute solo.

A must have for any lover of baroque music.

If you enjoy baroque music, this is certainly a must. The clarity of this recording is wonderful. It has a kind of depth that I don't often find in CD recordings - almost as if I can reach out and take hold of the music. The fantastic Dresden Concerti are performed nearly flawlessly by Reinhard Goebel and his ensemble on period instruments, lending themselves to create a rich, classic CD recording.

I hadn't heard of Heinichen until I got a bonus CD (celebrating 25 years of Music Auntiquita Koln) with something. The first track, which really hooked me, was the first concerto on this set, and so I bought it.

Two discs of concertos by somebody is a lot of their music, but I find myself playing both of these through at a single sitting quite often - there is something about the way that Heinichen keeps the musical ideas flowing that I find very satisfying. He also manages to use a lot of different sounds - I can't imagine much more contrast than between the first movement of that first concerto that I heard - tightly clustered strings playing in a very controlled sprightly manner and, a movement on the second disc that is played on something like bagpipes with sliding notes.

MAK of course give an excellent performance as usual.

This was a doubly excellent find: a new composer (to me at least) and a great CD. However, I now have two other discs of Heinichen wind concertos and sonatas on CPO which are also very good, and which I also recommend.

Heinichen is the Deep Purple of baroque music! Forgotten, but clearly GREAT! This music is easily as enjoyable as Bach, Vivalidi, Handel and Telemann. If you enjoy baroque, this is surely a collection you ought to own. The flawlessness of these recording is breathtaking. It has a kind of richness that I don't find in compact disc recordings. These recordings force you to sit down and just listen. The compositions may not be as complex and "deep" as Bach or Handel, but its very enjoyable and clearly more relaxing. The incredible Dresden Concerti (period instruments) performed flawlessly under Goebel. What an unsurpassable job in bringing Heinichens curiously abandoned works back into the catalog. Two or three hundred years from now Deep Purple will get their due as one of the important artists in rock music history.

PS: If you like baroque wind music, you will fall in love with this collection.
This is a must for the Baroque fan.

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One of the best baroque music I have ever listened. A must for all classical music lovers.

Musica Antiqua Köln's recording of Johann David Heinichen is the most outstanding performance I have ever heard; it could only be topped by hearing the orchestra in a live concert. The fact that the instruments performed upon are authentic from the Baroque period enhances the quality beyond belief, beyond any level that the quality and tone of modern instruments could possibly reach. These concerti are sheer beauty in its most refined aristocratic form, reflecting the splendor of the Dresden Court at the height of its Baroque grandeur. It has been said that no one has excelled Heinichen in the absolute joy and jubilation his music stirs up in the soul. Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln do an unsurpassable job in bringing this man's inexplicably neglected compositions back into the musical repertoire. END

Clearly Dresden was the center for musical thought. Perhaps this was JS Bach's motivation for writing protions of his B-minor Mass for the Duke of Saxony.Heinichen's concerti fall between the baroque discipline of Bach and the movement towards the Classical in Mozart. These works are true eye openers. The moreso as I am a devotee of Bach and of early Mozart. Surely they give testimony to his selection as the leading musician of the Sazon Court.