Telemann: Wind Concertos Vol. 2

La Stagione Frankfurt;
Camerata Köln;
Schneider, Michael

CPO 777267

The second part of our panorama featuring Telemann's complete wind concertos opens with the magnificent Recorder Concerto in C major TWV 51: C 1. The manifold variety of its melodies and rhythms offers the recorder, an instrument that Telemann by his own account had begun playing in his early childhood and had studied with the greatest precision, plenty of room for virtuoso display, especially in the fast movements. Moreover, the other four concertos selected once again reflect the broad instrumental and stylistic spectrum over which Telemann ranged – from a Concerto for transverse flute in which the composer forges links to the traditions of pastoral music to a complex horn double Concerto exhibiting sharp, precisely etched contrast formations after the Italian model. Michael Schneider and his La Stagione and Camerata Köln ensembles again convey the versatility of the multi-instrumentalist Telemann with »a lot of pep« (FonoForum). And nobody today is better at doing just that!

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Muzyka klasyczna

CPO

13-05-2008

761203726721