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Georg Philipp Telemann was a consummate master of various national musical styles, from Italian to French to his own German, a point emphatically emphasized in
While recordings of Telemann’s orchestral overtures are not that uncommon, programs devoted exclusively to the overtures he scored for wind quintet are. One reason is
Telemann wrote these sonatas to teach amateurs to play in the style of the virtuosi, specifically with respect to the practice of proper ornamentation. This
A few months ago when reviewing Harald Hoeren’s grand Telemann recital for CPO I lamented the deletion of Peter Ella’s Hungaroton traversal of Telemann’s Fantasies.
Very little of Georg Philipp Telemann’s massive extant oeuvre for solo harpsichord has been recorded on CD (or existed on LP for that matter). Petér
Given what we know today about Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann, most observers (including me) would argue that Bach was the superior composer.
With umpteen billions, well, okay hundreds, of instrumental pieces in the Telemann catalog, you’d think more than one of his suites (overtures) would get all
First–this is a very well played and recorded program of Baroque trio sonatas, featuring works by several of the period’s most prominent composers. The “big”
If you’re up for nearly 160 minutes of quintessentially charming German baroque chamber music, here is the set for you. The Camerata Köln lucidly performs
Now before you turn up your nose and close your ears to the prospect of Baroque and Classical works being performed by an orchestra of
