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Elephant House Quartet - Telemann's Garden (2019)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 1, 2021
Elephant House Quartet - Telemann's Garden (2019)

Elephant House Quartet - Telemann's Garden (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 58:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC 5186749 | Recorded: 2018

Elephant House Quartet invites the listener for a stroll through the colourful oeuvre of Telemann — himself a gardening enthusiast — presenting a bouquet of chamber-musical jewels. Telemann’s Garden ranges from excerpts of solo fantasias for violin, flute and harpsichord to a sonata for viola da gamba and basso continuo, a trio sonata for violin, recorder and basso continuo, a suite for violin, flute and basso continuo, as well as one of the quartets Telemann wrote during his Paris sojourns. These pieces together constitute a fascinating portrait of one of the most prolific and successful composers of the Baroque era.
Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln - Georg Philipp Telemann: Sinfonia spirituosa (2002)

Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln - Georg Philipp Telemann: Sinfonia spirituosa (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 411 Mb | Total time: 73:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 471 492-2 | Recorded: 2001

This new issue by Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln is one of their strongest to date. The programme is imaginative, the content varied and the playing of a very high order. At its heart lie Telemann’s three originally conceived and skilfully crafted concertos for four unaccompanied violins. Two of them featured in one of Goebel’s earliest recordings for DG Archiv but the new version surpasses even the elevated standards set by the other. Hard on the heels of a recent performance by the Berlin Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi) comes another reading of Telemann’s Violin Concerto Die Relinge (The Frogs). Heavily dependent upon onomatopoeia, its humour wears a bit thin after a time; but the piece is tautly and rather untypically constructed and, in a performance of such vitality and mischievous humour as this, will probably find a good many takers.
Dan Laurin, Arte dei Suonatori - Telemann: Ouverture & 3 Concertos (2002)

Dan Laurin, Arte dei Suonatori - Telemann: Ouverture & 3 Concertos (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 427 Mb | Total time: 76:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-1185 CD | Recorded: 2000

The opening Overture (Suite) in A minor is one of Telemann's most ambitious concerted works, running to seven distinct dance movements in 30 minutes. The rhythmic shifts in the "Air à l'Italien" are pretty abrupt and really catch your attention. Of the three concertos, the Double Concerto in A minor for flauto dolce and viola da gamba is a standout, owing to its occasionally explosive gestures and knotty emotionalism. All of these works have been recorded numerous times, but most commonly on the standard transverse flute, but only the F major concerto was originally written for flute, and many versions of the Overture in A minor show signs of having been somewhat condensed.
Paul Dombrecht, Wieland Kuijken, Robert Kohnen - Georg Philipp Telemann: Trios (2001)

Paul Dombrecht, Wieland Kuijken, Robert Kohnen - Georg Philipp Telemann: Trios (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 55:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS 917 | Recorded: 1996

Paul Dombrecht, Wieland Kuijken en Robert Kohnen zijn sinds jaar en dag klinkende namen op de internationale barokpodia. Zij behoren tot de internationale top op het gebied van oude muziek en verwierven een ijzersterke faam als solist, artistiek leider of musicus in diverse ensembles. Hun pionierswerk van weleer was en is de vruchtbare bodem voor de internationale weerklank van de oude muziek. Samen koesteren ze een warme symathie voor de schier onuitputtelijke muziek van Georg Philipp Telemann.
Florilegium, Clare Wilkinson - Georg Philipp Telemann: Concertos & Cantata Ihr Volker Hort (2016)

Georg Philipp Telemann: Concertos & Cantata Ihr Völker Hört (2016)
Florilegium; Clare Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 337 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCS 38616 | Time: 01:18:46

This attractive mixed programme of Telemann’s works featuring flute or recorder has been designed by Ashley Solomon to celebrate Florilegium’s 25th anniversary. The triple concerto for flute, oboe d’amore and viola d’amore in E major stands out as one of the composer’s most beguiling masterpieces: the limpid opening Andante sounds like a serene evocation of sunrise that anticipates the mature Haydn by several decades; the soloists Solomon, Alexandra Bellamy and Bojan Čičić play with elegant finesse, and also conjure up refined melancholy in an intimately conversational Siciliana. The double concerto for recorder and viola da gamba in A minor is a charming example of Telemann’s taste for synthesising French and Italian musical styles with elements of Polish folk music; Florilegium’s civilised elegance in the French-style Grave, gently Italianate sway in the Allegro, and Solomon’s duet with gambist Reiko Ichise in the Dolce has pastoral sensitivity. At the heart of the programme is Ihr Völker hört, a cantata for solo voice and obbligato instrument that was published in the first instalment of the series Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst. Clare Wilkinson’s softly convivial and articulate singing communicates the cheerful Epiphany text.
Bathold Kuijken, Wieland Kuijken, Robert Kohnen - Telemann: Sonate Metodiche 1728/1732 (1996)

Bathold Kuijken, Wieland Kuijken, Robert Kohnen - Telemann: Sonate Metodiche 1728/1732 (1996)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Accent | Catalog: ACC 94104/5

Give each instrument what suits it best, thus is the player content and you well entertained.’ In these pieces, unenticingly called ‘Methodical Sonatas’, Telemann is as good as his word. These are delightful works, full of humour, very skilfully written and never dull. There are two sets of six sonatas each. All are played on a Baroque flute, though certain keys suggest a violin, with fluency and impeccable taste by Barthold Kuijken. His tone is alluring and his ornamentation, mainly based on Telemann’s own suggestions, faultlessly executed. A programme for performers and listeners alike. Outstanding.
Bolette Roed, Reiko Ichise, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Telemann (2016)

Bolette Roed, Reiko Ichise, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Telemann (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 412 Mb | Total time: 78:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DUX | # DUX 1245 | Recorded: 2015

Johann Joachim Quantz, in his handbook for transverse flute written in 1752, wrote of the composer Georg Philipp Telemann: “I wish to especially recommend Telemann’s trios written in the French style, many of which he had already fashioned thirty or more years ago.” Georg Philipp Telemann not only gained the admiration of Quantz, but his pieces are still frequently performed and recorded today. For this album, his Concerto di camera in G minor, Double Concertos in A minor and E minor, and Suite in A minor have been recorded. Performing these timeless works are three outstanding period instrumentalists, Bolette Roed, Reiko Ichise, and Alexis Kossenko.
Sébastien Marq, Le Concert Français, Pierre Hantaï - Georg Philip Telemann: "Essercizii Musici" Trios, Solos, Fantaisies (1995)

Sébastien Marq, Le Concert Français, Pierre Hantaï - Georg Philipp Telemann: "Essercizii Musici" Trios, Solos, Fantaisies (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 70:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Astrée Auvidis | E 8684 | Recorded: 1994

Un rayon de soleil traverse l’azur du petit matin et réchauffe le cœur d’une douce caresse… Dès le premier mouvement (largo) du Trio en la Majeur, Sébastien Marq expose son jeu doux et velouté, léger et transcendant. Et l’on s’émerveille, béat, devant la beauté du son, la justesse des sentiments, et ce toucher si délicat qui vous berce et vous emmène dans un jardin d’Eden. Le voyage s’achève sur quatre mêmes notes, plus suaves et doucereuses que les précédentes.
American Baroque - Georg Philipp Telemann: Fourth Book of Quartets (1990)

American Baroque - Georg Philipp Telemann: Fourth Book of Quartets (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 314 Mb | Total time: 54:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Koch | # 3-7031-2 H1 | Recorded: 1989

These six Quartets for flute, violin, viola/viola da gamba and continuo are puzzling on almost all counts. Though printed in Paris in 1752 they are not part of the genuine ‘Paris Quartet’ set of 1738. Nor are they incontrovertibly the work of Telemann. But on stylistic grounds it does seem likely, though we should not rule out an imitator, French perhaps, who in collusion with the publisher saw an opportunity to make some money following the enormous success of Telemann’s Paris visit in 1737-8.
Fabio Biondi - Georg Philipp Telemann: 12 Fantasias for solo violin (2016)

Fabio Biondi - Georg Philipp Telemann: 12 Fantasias for solo violin (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 337 Mb | Total time: 62:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 923406 | Recorded: 2015

Alongside his success directing Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi's sixth CD for Glossa is the first to showcase his talents as a solo violinist.