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Zsolt Szefcsik, Erdõdy Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Complete String Concertos, Vol.2 (2003)

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Zsolt Szefcsik, Erdõdy Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Complete String Concertos, Vol.2 (2003)

Zsolt Szefcsik, Erdõdy Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Complete String Concertos, Vol.2 (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 346 Mb | Total time: 56:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hungaroton | # HCH 32241 | Recorded: 2001, 2003

Volume Two of the Complete String Concertos of Ignace Pleyel (1757-1831) includes some charming, if undistinguished. music that sounds like Haydn with bits of Mozart mixed in. At one time among the most celebrated of Europe’s composers, Pleyel’s work has fallen into obscurity; so, we can be grateful that some talented instrumentalists are taking up his mantle again. A competent kapellmeister and more than competent master of diverse forms, Pleyel seems to employs the three-movement format for his Viotti-like concertos; the recording gives us the alternative ending, a 4/4 Rondo, to his violin concerto.

Péter Szabó, Erdõdy Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Complete String Concertos, Vol.1 (2002)

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Péter Szabó, Erdõdy Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Complete String Concertos, Vol.1 (2002)

Péter Szabó, Erdõdy Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Complete String Concertos, Vol.1 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 72:58+57:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hungaroton | # HCD 32067-68 | Recorded: 2001

All praise to Hungaroton for their series of Pleyel string concertos. This first volume gives us the five extant cello concertos. A concerto in D (Ben 102) advertised by Breitkopf in 1782-4 is lost. A second volume with the violin concerto (both versions) is promised. Three works here are completely new. The other two have been recorded before: Ben 106 (1797) as a cello concerto or in Pleyel’s alternative versions for flute or clarinet; Ben 104 (c1788) as a clarinet concerto—possibly Gebauer’s adaptation. Ben 105 (1790) was also issued as a viola concerto.

Quartetto Luigi Tomasini - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: String Quartets, Op. 11 Nos. 1-3 (2008)

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Quartetto Luigi Tomasini - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: String Quartets, Op. 11 Nos. 1-3 (2008)

Quartetto Luigi Tomasini - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: String Quartets, Op. 11 Nos. 1-3 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 61:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hungaroton | # HCD 32593 | Recorded: 2008

Pleyel, who is more famous as a piano maker, enjoyed great popularity at the time by publishing Haydn's works and producing numerous chamber music works that followed Haydn's style as a disciple. The string quartet Op. 11 included here has a beautiful formal beauty with impressive handling of unique accents, and the variety of variations is more impressive than that of his teacher. The Luigi Tomasini Quartet uses original instruments and produces beautiful tones with excellent control, creating a perfect harmony between strong accents and delicate melodies.

Playel-Trio St. Petersburg - Music for the Tsar: Alexander I and his Family (2002)

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Playel-Trio St. Petersburg - Music for the Tsar: Alexander I and his Family (2002)

Playel-Trio St. Petersburg - Music for the Tsar: Alexander I and his Family (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 306 Mb | Total time: 76:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR 77241 | Recorded: 2001

Dedicated to Tsar Alexander I and his family, this album of chamber music by Western European musicians presents the musical activities of the Russian court at the beginning of the 19th century. The Pleyel Trio, made up of Russia's best period instrument players, dynamically captures the various aspects of classical musicians, from composers active in Russia such as Hessler to Hummel, who made an enthusiastic tour of Russia, and Beethoven, who dedicated works in Vienna.

Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Krommer, Stamitz, Pleyel, Kozeluch, Wranitzky: Symphonies [5CDs] (2010)

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Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Krommer, Stamitz, Pleyel, Kozeluch, Wranitzky: Symphonies [5CDs] (2010)

Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Krommer, Stamitz, Pleyel, Kozeluch, Wranitzky: Symphonies (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.32 Gb | Total time: 317:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # 10628(5) | Recorded: 1993-1995,1997,2001

Matthias Bamert’s Contemporaries of Mozart project is one of Chandos’ longest-running and most successful recording series. Mozart’s unquestionable genius has tended to eclipse the work of many otherwise excellent composers who were writing at the same time as he. Often successful in their day, many of these composers fell into neglect over subsequent decades and were in some cases almost forgotten. Matthias Bamert has shown just how rich this area of the repertoire is, and each of his CDs received superb critical acclaim.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 02 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 02 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 02: Vivaldi, Telemann, J.S.Bach, Tartini, Monn, C.P.E.Bach, J.C.Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Pleyel, Beethoven [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 76.43+73.10+77.59+54.27 | Scans | 1.29 Gb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 1991-2011

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Trio 1790 - Ignaz Pleyel: Piano Trios (2010)

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Trio 1790 - Ignaz Pleyel: Piano Trios (2010)

Trio 1790 - Ignaz Pleyel: Piano Trios (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 71:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 544-2 | Recorded: 2007, 2008

Four of Ignaz Pleyel’s Piano Trios are featured on this new release, interpreted by Trio 1790 on period instruments. Trio 1790 have recorded a critically acclaimed series of Haydn’s Piano Trios for Cpo and these trios by Pleyel, a former pupil and friend of Joseph Haydn, provide gallant melodies, dramatic harmonies and many tonal surprises.

Markand Thakar, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes, Violin Concerto (2009)

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Markand Thakar, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes, Violin Concerto (2009)

Markand Thakar, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra - Ignaz Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes, Violin Concerto (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 79:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.570320 | Recorded: 2008

Pleyel’s symphonies concertantes are characteristic expressions of his idiosyncratic style. They are expansive, leisurely-paced works, texturally transparent in their solo sections and rich in melodic invention. Always sensitive to instrumental colour, Pleyel uses his unusual forces to weave a scintillating web of sound in these remarkable works. The original and virtually unknown version of the Violin Concerto in D, composed in the early 1780s, is one of the earliest of Pleyel’s solo concertos but no less attractive and assured than its successors. This recording includes the original first and second movements together with a new finale composed by Pleyel several years later.

Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 7-9 (2008)

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Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 7-9 (2008)

Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 7-9 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 268 Mb | Total time: 58:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 315-2 | Recorded: 2007

Pleyel's string quartets occupy a central place in his rich musical oeuvre – which is hardly surprising, given the fact that he studied with Joseph Haydn and was later his friend. What is surprising, however, is that Haydn's influence on Pleyel is not as clear as one might expect. During Pleyel's lifetime his twelve Prussian Quartets (Benton 331-42) enjoyed very great popularity, and today they convey a clear picture of his versatility in chamber composition. Concertante episodes, distributed in fair shares among the four instruments, play the dominant role in Pleyel, and here his inclination toward an idiom of clearer Italian orientation is reflected. The Pleyel Quartet of Cologne, drawing on historical sources for its interpretations whenever possible, performs three of these »bold« Prussian Quartets fascinating us with their dramatic harmony and many tonal surprises.

Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 4-6 (2012)

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Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 4-6 (2012)

Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 4-6 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 271 Mb | Total time: 58:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 551-2 | Recorded: 2009

Den Erstling bewertete klassik-heute mit 10 von 10 Punkten für die künstlerische Qualität: »Das Erstaunliche beim Hören dieser Aufnahme liegt darin, wie gut es dem Kölner Quartett gelingt, seine Überzeugtheit von Pleyels kompositorischer Qualität in die Wiedergabe einfließen zu lassen… Die für ihn spezifische, technisch anspruchsvolle Klangfarben-Dramaturgie wird von ›seinem‹ Quartett derart virtuos zum Leuchten gebracht, dass nicht der leiseste Gedanke an gefällige Gebrauchsmusik auftaucht, « heißt es dort bezüglich des musikalischen Feingespürs des Pleyel Quartetts. Die Quartette 4-6 lassen erneut erkennen, welch treffsicheres Gefühl Pleyel in der charaktertypischen Verwendung der Tonarten hatte, und der Verzicht auf die höfischen Menuett-Sätze zeigt seine Emanzipation von seinem Lehrer Haydn auf, aber auch die fast provokativ wirkende Unabhängigkeit vom Widmungsträger, Friedrich Wilhelm II.

Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 1-3 (2014)

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Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 1-3 (2014)

Pleyel Quartet Köln - Ignaz Pleyel: Preußische Quartette 1-3 (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 52:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 777-2 | Recorded: 2011

Nach begeisterter Zustimmung für ihre beiden Einspielungen mit den »Preußischen Quartetten 4-9« legt das Pleyel Quartett Köln nun die Streichquartette 1-3 von Ignaz Pleyel vor. Diese »Preußischen Quartette« erfreuten sich zu seinen Lebzeiten einer besonders großen Beliebtheit und vermitteln ein deutliches Bild der Vielseitigkeit des Komponisten auf kammermusikalischem Sektor. Konzertante Episoden – verteilt in einem vernünftigen Gleichgewicht auf die vier Instrumente – spielten für Pleyel die dominante Rolle, worin sich die Neigung zu einem deutlicher an Italien orientierten Idiom spiegelte. Diese Impulskraft entstammt der Eigenständigkeit seiner Art zu komponieren, gerade auch seinem Lehrer Haydn gegenüber.