[TR24][OF] Florilegium and Ashley Solomon - Haydn: Symphonies 6, 7, 8 "Le matin" "Le midi" "Le soir" - 2022 (Classical)

foobar2000 1.4.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-11-25 03:56:40
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Analyzed: Joseph Haydn / Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, 8 "Le Matin", "Le midi", "Le Soir"
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR12      -1.33 dB   -18.71 dB      5:57 01-I. Adagio - Allegro
DR16      -6.84 dB   -27.47 dB      7:37 02-II. Adagio - Andante
DR13      -4.70 dB   -21.68 dB      4:12 03-III. Minuet
DR14      -0.22 dB   -19.49 dB      4:48 04-IV. Finale. Allegro
DR14      -1.67 dB   -20.98 dB      7:49 05-I. Adagio - Allegro
DR16      -4.94 dB   -26.09 dB      8:46 06-II. Recitativo. Adagio
DR13      -2.72 dB   -20.69 dB      3:53 07-III. Minuet
DR13      -0.95 dB   -20.16 dB      4:18 08-IV. Finale. Allegro
DR13       0.00 dB   -18.49 dB      5:29 09-I. Allegro molto
DR14      -5.14 dB   -27.35 dB      8:14 10-II. Andante
DR14      -3.02 dB   -21.34 dB      4:17 11-Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Hob.I:8 "Le Soir": III. Minuet
DR13       0.00 dB   -18.02 dB      5:10 12-IV. La Tempesta. Presto
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Number of tracks:  12
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate:        192000 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           4839 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Florilegium
The small ensemble Florilegium has gained a reputation as one of Britain's leading period instrument groups, performing in top venues worldwide. With a repertoire ranging from the High Baroque to the early Romantic period, Florilegium has an unusually deep catalogue of recordings. Florilegium was founded in 1991 by harpsichordist Neal Peres da Costa and flutist Ashley Solomon, now the group's director. With a core membership of five, they can expand to a much larger size for orchestral and choral performances. A breakthrough in their career was a three-year Ensemble in Residence stint at Wigmore Hall in London from 1998 to 2000. They have also performed at the Frick Collection in New York, the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterstam, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Esplanade in Singapore, and the Sydney Opera House. Among their vocal collaborators have been Emma Kirkby and Elin Manahan Thomas. Florilegium has served as Ensemble in Association at the Royal College of Music, coaching players in 18th century Baroque repertoire.Their greatest renown, however, has come from their recording activities, which began in 1993 with an album of Telemann chamber music on the Dutch label Channel Classics. With few exceptions, they have continued to record for that label. Many of their albums have been reviewed enthusiastically in the Netherlands and beyond, and several have received or been nominated for major awards. An album of Bach cantatas featuring Dutch soprano Johannette Zomer received the Edison Award, the Netherlands' top classical music prize, in 2008. That same year, the group's album Baroque Music from Bolivian Missions was nominated for a BBC Music Magazine award. Their 2014 recording of Bach's complete Brandenburg Concertos, their 25th release, won a Luister 10 Award in the Netherlands. In 2018, among appearances in major cities of the U.K., they issued an album of Telemann's Essercizii Musici.
Ashley Solomon
As a solo flutist and recorder player, as director of the historical performance group Florilegium, and as an educator, Ashley Solomon has exerted strong influence on the early music scene in Britain and beyond, often championing the music of Georg Philipp Telemann. Solomon was born in England's Sussex region in 1968. He earned a scholarship in recorder and flute to the Royal College of Music in London, graduating with first-class honors and then winning a Countess of Munster Musical Trust financial award for postgraduate study. After studies with Peter Holtslag on recorder and Lisa Beznosiuk on flute, he graduated in 1991 and promptly took home first prize in the Moeck International Recorder Competition. That led to a solo debut recital at Wigmore Hall in London and to credibility in establishing a new early music group, Florilegium, with harpsichordist Neal Peres da Costa. Solomon soon emerged as the group's director, and he was named professor at his alma mater in 1994. Solomon made his debut on recordings with Florilegium in 1993 and as a soloist the following year, with a CD of flute and recorder music of the Italian Baroque on the Meridian label, soon moving to Channel Classics in the Netherlands, where he also records with Florilegium. His solo recordings have included the complete flute sonatas of Bach in two volumes, as well as a recording of music for period harp and flute with works by Mozart, Rossini, Gluck, Naderman, Bochsa, and Tulou; Florilegium's repertory, too, has extended forward into the Romantic period. Solomon has toured with Florilegium and also with the Australian Chamber Orchestra during that group's first international heyday in the late 1990s. Solomon has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, the Americas, the Far East, and Australia. Appointed Head of Historical Performance at the RCM in 2006, he was given a personal chair there in 2014. He has also toured Bolivia three times with Florilegium and educated young musicians there. In 2017 he released a recording of Telemann's 12 Fantasias for solo flute, using three distinctive period flutes: one made from wood, one porcelain, and one ivory.

Recorded in St John's Church West Norwood, London in March 2022, Florilegium release their 31st Channel Classics album: Haydn Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 and 8.
This recording involves 18 members of Florilegium, the exact same number Haydn had at his disposal when he composed these symphonies shortly after arriving at Esterhazy in 1761. Haydn’s first symphonies for his new employer, Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, form a group of three entitled Morning, Noon and Night. Perhaps these were a result of the Prince’s suggestion that Haydn write something programmatic along the lines of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
As symphonies for a small chamber orchestra, all three exploit the solo skills of each of Florilegium’s principals, from flute to double bass, not to mention heroic horns as well as spectacular violin and cello solos, each vividly characterised in an almost operatic way.
Florilegium's previous Haydn London Symphonies recording was hailed as "first rate" by BBC Music Magazine.
Florilegium is one of Britain's most outstanding period instrument groups specialising in music from the 17th and 18th centuries. Many of their recordings have garnered international awards over the years.