Telemann: Grillen-Symphonie

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Telemann:

Grillen-Symphonie

Overture (Suite) TWV 55:F11 in F major for 4 horns, 2 oboes, 2 violins & b.c. 'Alster'

Concerto TWV 54:D2 in D major for 3 horns, violin, strings & b.c.

Anthony Halstead, Christian Rutherford, Raul Diaz (horns), Simon Standage (violin)

Overture (Suite) TWV 55:C5 in C major 'La Bouffonne'

Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

“This release shows Telemann at his most irrepressibly good-humoured and imaginative.
There's a concerto for three rattling horns and a solo violin (a splendid sound, with the horns recorded at what seems like the ideal distance), and an elegant suite for strings which sounds like Handel, Bach and a few French composers all thrown in together. More striking, though, is the most substantial piece on the disc, the Alster Echo Overture-Suite, a nine-movement work for strings, oboes and horns full of tricks and surprises occasioned by a host of representative titles. Thus 'Hamburg Carillons' brings us horns imitating bells, 'Concerto of Frogs and Crows' has some mischievously scrunchy wrong notes, and in 'Alster Echo' there's a complex network of echoes between oboes and horns. But the showstealer is the Grillen-Symphonie ('Cricket Symphony').
This is a work for the gloriously silly scoring of piccolo, alto chalumeau, oboe, violins, viola, and two double basses, a somewhat Stravinskian combination that you're unlikely to encounter every day. But it's not just the instrumentation that's irresistibly odd. There's a slow movement with curious, melancholy woodwind interventions a little reminiscent of Harold inItaly, and a finale which is quite a hoot.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

Chandos Chaconne - CHAN0547

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Telemann - The Baroque Gypsies

Includes:

Telemann:

Grillen-Symphonie

and gypsy pieces from the Uhrovska Collection 1730

Ensemble Caprice, Matthias Maute

Telemann wrote of his encounters with Eastern European gypsy music in his autobiographies “In only a week a composer could be inspired for an entire lifetime. I have written several major concertos in this style”. The works on this CD alternate between the works of Telemann and traditional gypsy music from the Uhrovska Collection of 1730.

“It is a simply idea but it works brilliantly, thanks in no small part to the boisterous energy and earthy commitment of the 14 musicians involved...there are times when it would be difficult to tell where gypsies stop and Telemann starts. Both will make you want to get up and dance around the room...An utterly irresistable release.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010

Analekta - AN29919

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$17.00

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Telemann Edition

Telemann:

Tafelmusik I-III (complete)

Musica Amphion, Pieter-Jan Belder

Concerto TWV 51:D7 in D major for trumpet, strings & b.c.

Otto Sauter (trumpet)