Telemann: Complete Suites & Concertos for Recorder

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Release Date: 20th May 2016
Catalogue No: 95248
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 75 minutes

Telemann: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:Es2 in E flat major for oboe, strings & b.c.

Work length20:52

$8.00

$10.40

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Ouverture

Track length7:56

$2.00

$2.60

II. Menuet I - Menuet II

Track length3:08

$1.00

$1.30

III. Sarabande

Track length1:44

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Bourree I en Echo [alternativement] - Bourree II

Track length3:19

$1.00

$1.30

V. Passepied

Track length1:49

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Gavotte

Track length0:58

$1.00

$1.30

VII. Gigue

Track length1:58

$1.00

$1.30

Telemann: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:a2 in A minor for recorder (flute), strings & b.c.

Work length27:30

$8.00

$10.40

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Ouverture

Track length8:40

$2.00

$2.60

II. Les Plaisirs

Track length2:47

$1.00

$1.30

III. Air a l'Italienne

Track length6:07

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Menuets I and II

Track length2:41

$1.00

$1.30

V. Rejouissance

Track length2:00

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Passepieds I and II

Track length1:46

$1.00

$1.30

VII. Polonaise

Track length3:29

$1.00

$1.30

Telemann: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:f1 in F minor for 2 recorders, strings & b.c.

Work length11:57

$4.00

$5.20

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Affettuoso

Track length2:45

$1.00

$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length3:34

$1.00

$1.30

III. Adagio

Track length2:25

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Menuett I - Menuett II - Menuett I da capo

Track length3:13

$1.00

$1.30

Telemann: Concerto TWV 51:C1 in C major for recorder, strings & b.c.

Work length15:14

$4.00

$5.20

Erik Bosgraaf
Cordevento

I. Allegretto

Track length3:05

$1.00

$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length3:48

$1.00

$1.30

III. Andante

Track length3:50

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Tempo di Minuet

Track length4:31

$1.00

$1.30

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Telemann’s concertos offer a unique combination of virtuosity, wit and sense of the theatrical. Having taught himself to play the instrument as a child, the German master had a special understanding of and fondness for the recorder, and for it he created a new hybrid form, the Suite auf Concertenart, which combines soloistic display with baroque dances.

These suites and concertos may be less overtly virtuosic than works in the same genre which were beginning to appear around the same time over the other side of the Alps, but Telemann yields nothing to his Italian counterparts in terms of melodic freshness and fertility. The suites are styled in the French manner, as a series of courtly dances, though the A minor Suite features a grand and tragic ‘Air in the Italian style’ and concludes with a snappy Polonaise – one of Telemann’s favourite dance rhythms – reeling away like an inspired tavern fiddler.

Erik Bosgraaf’s discography on Brilliant Classics ranges from Vivaldi (BC94637 – now also available on LP) to Boulez (BC94842), not to mention two previous sets of Telemann – the solo fantasias (BC93757) and sonatas with basso continuo (BC95247) – as well as more rarely encountered delights by Jakob van Eyck (BC93391). These discs and others have garnered both popular attention and critical praise. Of Bosgraaf’s own, composer‐approved transcription of the Dialogue de l’ombre double by Boulez, Gramophone commented that ‘balance between recorders and electronics is ideally judged, giving this music an immediacy yet also intimacy beyond that of any other recorded option.’

Closer to the recorder’s natural home in music several centuries earlier, Julie Anne Sadie wrote in the same magazine about Bosgraaf’s ‘magical version of the ubiquitous Four Seasons. ‘A carefully researched and arrestingly translucent chamber interpretation… the rapport between solo and ripieno forces is simply fabulous.’

Telemann: Complete Suites & Concertos for Recorder

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