Christian Cannabich

I'd like you all to listen to some of this great composer's work.

symphonies no. 47-52 (1772)

are very good works, full of inventiveness and fresh melodies, always new and never boring or repetitive

a good set of these is found in a naxos edition titled:

Christian Cannabich
symphonies no. 47-52

box number 8.554340

What a great suggestion! Thanks! I just bought it. You're right...it's pretty tasty stuff, and nicely performed.

Studying Cannabich and the other Mannheim symphonists inspired me to write my first symphony! There were no recordings available at that time (this was in 1984), at least none I could find - and I was freshly into the whole period instruments movement, so chances are even if I could have found a recording back then, I might not have liked it if it had been on modern instruments.

Argh...listening to this makes me want to regress!!!! This music just makes so much SENSE to me.

Originally Posted by J. Lee Graham

What a great suggestion! Thanks! I just bought it. You're right...it's pretty tasty stuff, and nicely performed.

Studying Cannabich and the other Mannheim symphonists inspired me to write my first symphony! There were no recordings available at that time (this was in 1984), at least none I could find - and I was freshly into the whole period instruments movement, so chances are even if I could have found a recording back then, I might not have liked it if it had been on modern instruments.

Argh...listening to this makes me want to regress!!!! This music just makes so much SENSE to me.

What's the problem with 'regressing'? Who says using old techiques and styles is regressing, just because they've been used? If anything, it's more original nowadays.

Not only that, who says you have to restrict yourself to just one style?

C'mon, go write us some more delicious 1770's music. It's like a sexual orientation, you can't deny your urges

[/Graham's consciousness. Whether it's shaped as an angel or devil in a cartoony way, I don't know.]

hehe glad you liked it!

i have got so many cds from naxos lately, they are not on period instruments, but they are good.

if u want some period instrumetns go also for brilliant, it is not true that they are not good recording...

i like them and i am going to get all of boccherini and clementi for now...


ah! try to get the quartets of arraiga, he is good good!

hmm regressing?? lol we are already regressed! hahahah but who cares!!

we all like styles, there are tousands ones... we can pick whatever things as long as works for us!

some will like, some wont... as in anything.

and i would say.. STOP WITH THIS THING "CONTEMPORARY IS BETTER THAN OLD MUSIC"

or

"WE ARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WE MUST GO ON WITH SOMETHING NEW AND UNEXPLORED"

i agree... but what? as long as nobody feels to revolutionate music, we will go on this way.
tonal or atonal or a mix of both...

music is music, and it is made to make ppl happy and delight them.
is made to make ppl think and reflect too, is made by ppl for ppl, otherwise it would be a nonsense, no??

and we are 6 billions on earth, so.... where's the problem if somebody writes in this style more than that one?? there are enough ppl to write in whatever style and there will be always somebody that feels more happy with that thing rather than that other one.

so, why to make all those pointless debates??

i like 18th century, i do it
i like 19th, i do it

i like them both, i mix them

i like just modern, i do it

i like medieval, i do it

now... where's the problem??

as long as you are happy, as long as ppl that listen to your work, are happy, and as long as everybody gets emotions from what we write... we reached what we wanted!