Hamburg Symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Hamburg Symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
These are symphonies for strings only. Delicious music to play at hall volume on a hot summerday with all windows open ;-)
In 1997 The Akademie für alte Musik Berlin recorded 2 (out of 6) of these Hamburg Sinfonien Wq.182.
Now - in 2023 actually - they made a recording of the 4 remaining symphonies (and 3 other symphonies: Wq174, 176 and 177), 26 years later. And it is splendid! The music is splendid, the performances are, the recorded sound is,
A fine alternative for the favourite recording by Café Zimmermann on Alpha, who recorded only 4 of these 6 symphonies, in 2005; and there is still no sign of a recording by them of the 2 missing symphonies. Why didn't they make a recording of all six symphonies together? They fit easily on one disc.
Other alternatives are:
- Gli Incogniti, with Amandine Beyer (all 6 on harmonia mundi); a real alternative;
- Ensemble Resonanz with Riccardo Minasi (all 6); unlike the other here mentioned recordings no period instruments are used, and that makes a difference, but it is HIP and a terrific performance anyway; also real alternative;
- Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (all 6) - but this is in disappointing, not sparkling sound; too much reverberation;
- and there are some more recordings (on Naxos and on Hänssler) I don't know at all.
Even so it would be nice to have a recording by Julien Chauvin with his Concert de la Loge.
IIRC Hurwitz has made a video about these works and a few recordings he liked; while not knowing the recordings by Café Zimmermann, Gli Incogniti, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, and not mentioning Minasi. And saying that "the HIP recordings" of these symphonies are ALL bad. But he only knew such recordings by Hogwood and Pinnock.
I had Pinnock's recording on LP; I don't remember how it was. Hogwood is too dull for this music indeed.