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The music sounds like a sonic allegory on transience and futility, just like the elapsing of time or the dwindling vitality. The “festive baroque” demonstrates a delicate sensorium for the downsides of earthly pleasures. Vanitas vanitatum! Vanity of vanities; all is vanity! - Jan Dismas Zelenka | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Telemann: Musique de Table (Tafelmusik), Vol. 4
“The Orchestra of the Golden Age bring expressive warmth to this evergreen repertoire. The present disc contains the third of the three 'Productions' that make up Telemann's most comprehensive orchestral/instrumental publication.
It's the shortest of the three and so can be accommodated comfortably on a single disc. Like its predecessors, the Third consists of an orchestral Suite, Quartet, Concerto, Trio, Sonata for melody instrument with figured bass and an orchestral 'Conclusion'. Telemann had already generously provided for transverse flute, trumpet and solo violins in the previous 'Productions' while maintaining the flute profile (Quartet and Trio) in the third anthology; he gives pride of place to oboe(s) in the Suite, Sonata and Conclusion, and a pair of horns in the Concerto.
One might feel that a slightly augmented string section would have been justified for the orchestral suites and concertos. But, in this instance the players realise the innate nobility of the French overture character with a justly 'occasional' tempo. In the Concerto, which comes over well, if perhaps a shade rigidly in its rhythm, the horn players Roger Montgomery and Gavin Edwards sustain an evenly balanced and tonally secure partnership. That also goes for the lightly articulated flute partnership of Edwina Smith and Felicity Bryson in the Trio.
The lovely G minor Oboe Sonata is played with warmth and expressive intimacy by Heather Foxwell. Telemann brings all to a vigorous close with a little three-section orchestral coda, marked Furioso. This is a set which makes rather more of Telemann's inflective délicatesse than others at twice or even three times the price.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “The last volume in the Orchestra of the Golden Age's four-disc survey of works from Telemann's Musique de Table is consistently inventive and appealing.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Handel: | Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV349 Francesco Roselli, Willy Küchler (horn) Festival Strings Lucerne, Rudolf Baumgartner Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV348: excerpts | Mozart: | Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K417 Wilhelm Bruns (horn) Quadriga-Quartett & Mannheimer Mozartorchester, Thomas Frey Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K447 Wilhelm Bruns (horn) Quadriga-Quartett & Mannheimer Mozartorchester, Thomas Frey Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K495 Wilhelm Bruns (horn) Quadriga-Quartett & Mannheimer Mozartorchester, Thomas Frey Horn Quintet in E flat, K407 Wilhelm Bruns (horn) Quadriga-Quartett | Schumann: | Konzertstück for four horns, Op. 86 Hornquartett der Staatskapelle Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt | Strauss, R: | Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 11 Hermann Baumann (horn) Kölner-Sinfonie-Orchester, Günter Wand | Telemann: | Concerto TWV 51:D8 in D major for horn, strings & b.c. Erich Penzel (horn) Collegium aureum, Franzjosef Maier Concerto TWV 54:Es1 in E flat major for 2 horns, 2 violins, strings & b.c. Erich Penzel (horn) Collegium aureum, Franzjosef Maier |
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Telemann: | Concerto TWV 53:A2 in A major for flute, violin, cello, strings & b.c. Silke Uhlig (flute), Roland Straumer (violin), Friedwart-Christian Dittmann (cello) Overture (Suite) TWV 55:D1 in D major for trumpet, oboe, strings & b.c. Ludwig Güttler (trumpet), Andreas Lorenz (oboe), Heinz-Dieter Richter, Roland Straumer (violins), Friedwart-Christian Dittmann (cello) Concerto TWV 53:F1 in F major for 3 violins, strings & b.c. Heinz-Dieter Richter, Michael Eckoldt, Roland Straumer (violins), Erik Reike (bassoon) Concerto TWV 54:Es1 in E flat major for 2 horns, 2 violins, strings & b.c. Ludwig Güttler, Mathias Schmutzler (corni da caccia), Roland Straumer, Heinz-Dieter Richter (violins), Friedrich Kircheis (harpsichord) |
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Bach, J S: | Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051: excerpts Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger In dulci jubilo, BWV368 Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger Pastorale in F major, BWV590 (arr. for orchestra) Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger | Giazotto: | The Albinoni Adagio Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger | Handel: | Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon) Budapest Strings, Bela Banfalvi Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 7 in B flat major, HWV325: hornpipe Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger Ombra mai fu (from Serse) (arr. for oboe and orchestra) Jozef Cejka (oboe) Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger | Marcello, A: | Oboe Concerto in D Minor Jozsef Kiss (oboe) Budapest Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra | Pachelbel: | Canon & Gigue Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger | Telemann: | Concerto TWV 54:Es1 in E flat major for 2 horns, 2 violins, strings & b.c. Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger | Torelli: | Trumpet Concerto in D major Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger | Vivaldi: | Winter from The Four Seasons (extract) Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger Recorder Concerto in C minor, RV441 (extract) Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger |
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Telemann: | Overture (Suite) TWV 55:18 in D major for 2 trumpets, percussion, strings & b.c.: 1. Overture Concerto TWV 54:D3 in D major for 3 trumpets, 2 oboes, timpani, strings & b.c. Sinfonia In F major, TWV 50:3 Quartet TWV 43:D7 in D major for trumpet, 2 oboes & b.c. Concerto TWV 53:D2 in D major for trumpet, 2 oboes, strings & b.c. Concerto TWV 51:D7 in D major for trumpet, strings & b.c. Overture (Suite) TWV 55:D8 in D major for trumpet, strings & b.c. Concerto TWV 54:Es1 in E flat major for 2 horns, 2 violins, strings & b.c. |
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