Telemann: Orchestral Suites

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Telemann is never more irresistible than when he's in light-hearted pictorial mode, and both these new releases feature one of the most entertainingly evocative of all his overture-suites for... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 30th May 2003
Catalogue No: 8554019
Label: Naxos
Length: 59 minutes

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Telemann: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:G10 in G major for strings & b.c. 'Burlesque de Don Quixotte'

Work length17:53

$7.00

$9.10

Northern Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Ward
Recorded: 22-23 July 1996
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Bolton, UK

I. Ouverture

Track length5:42

$1.00

$1.30

II. Le Reveil de Quixotte

Track length2:04

$1.00

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III. Son Attaque des Moulins a Vent

Track length1:53

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IV. Les Soupirs amoureux apres la Princesse Dulcinee

Track length3:10

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V. Sanche Panche berne

Track length1:40

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VI. Le Galop de Rosinante / Celui d'Ane de Sanche

Track length2:12

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VII. Le Couche de Don Quixotte

Track length1:12

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Telemann: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:d3 in D minor for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings & b.c.

Work length23:51

$10.00

$13.00

Northern Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Ward
Recorded: 22-23 July 1996
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Bolton, UK

I. Ouverture

Track length7:05

$2.00

$2.60

II. Menuets I and II

Track length2:46

$1.00

$1.30

III. Gavotte

Track length1:32

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$1.30

IV. Courante

Track length1:51

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V. Air

Track length3:18

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VI. Loure

Track length1:16

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VII. Hornepipe

Track length1:15

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VIII. Canaries

Track length1:44

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IX. Gigue

Track length3:04

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Telemann: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:Es3 in E flat major for strings & b.c. 'La Lyra'

Work length17:31

$7.00

$9.10

Northern Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Ward
Recorded: 22-23 July 1996
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Bolton, UK

I. Ouverture

Track length6:28

$1.00

$1.30

II. Menuets I and II

Track length3:01

$1.00

$1.30

III. La Vielle

Track length1:32

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IV. Sicilienne avec Cadenze

Track length1:37

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V. Rondeau

Track length0:50

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$1.30

VI. Bourrees I and II

Track length2:03

$1.00

$1.30

VII. Gigue

Track length2:00

$1.00

$1.30

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2010

Telemann is never more irresistible than when he's in light-hearted pictorial mode, and both these new releases feature one of the most entertainingly evocative of all his overture-suites for strings, the Burlesque de Quixote. Taking episodes from the Cervantes novel as its inspiration, it provides us with a memorable sequence of cameos, from the deluded Don tilting at windmills and sighing with love, to Sancho Panza tossed high in a blanket, to portrayals of the pair's respective steeds. Telemann achieves all this with such humour and descriptive precision that, when you hear it, you'll surely laugh in delighted recognition. What a good film composer he would have been! Both performances strike an appropriate tongue-in-cheek attitude. Northern Chamber Orchestra show good style and a pleasingly light and clear texture, unclouded by excessive vibrato or over-egged string tone. Only at the bass end does the sound occasionally become a little thick, but this is really quibbling when what we actually have is a good demonstration of how to perform Baroque music on modern strings. It still makes quite a contrast with Collegium Musicum 90, however, whose period instruments, recorded more intimately, sound slighter and sparkier.
Having already recorded so much of Telemann's music, they sound more at home and have that extra ounce of freedom to enjoy themselves.
The couplings of the Chandos disc are more interesting. For all that the NCO offer another attractive string suite, La Lyra, containing a typically realistic and beguiling hurdy-gurdy impersonation, the D major Overture isn't especially memorable; CM90 have found more colourful stuff in the strikingly French-accented G major Overture and a thoroughly charming Concerto for two violins, bassoon and strings. A pair of bassoons also makes a delightful appearance in the second Minuet of the Overture in B minor.

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