Apologies for the members who are waiting for Wm Sterndale Bennett but it’s Telemann this week.
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Thoroughly enjoying the first one. Looking forward to this quintet of programmes as real ear-openers, about the Baroque composer I've always thought I needed to know more about (ditto, his output), without ever having done anything about it.Originally posted by doversoul View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Some of Telemann's work is rather run of the mill, workaday stuff but you should try his Brockes Passion, the Jacobs/Harmonia Mundi version - it is Easter - whose opening is quite remarkable. One would have hoped for an extract this week. Makes a change from the usual Passions even if they are greater.Comment
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I've just ordered MAK's very last disc for Archiv Produktion - some of Telemann's flute/recorder quartets, which I understand is well worth hearing.Comment
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An excerpt today from Rachel Podger's Twelve Fantasies for Solo Violin - Channel Classics CCS 18298, a regular spin here (and a generous disc, at 75.20).Comment
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Yes, that's the one, Vints...do you have it already?Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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... not yet - but it's on its way
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
It doesn't make a whole heap of sense that the limelight, and the playlists, should be hogged by Bach and the other handful of greats such as Mozart and Haydn, leaving titans such as Telemann out in the cold. I would guess that Telemann's better works, of which there seem to be a large number, are equal to or better than average compositions of Bach and other "resident" composers.
I would welcome more Telemann.Comment
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