This group of Telemann pieces was recorded in 2002 for the U.S.-based Koch International label, now defunct. It remains a sterling Telemann release, and Avie deserves credit for spotting it and putting it into circulation once again. The Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra Apollo's Fire and conductor Jeannette Sorrell pick a program that shows exactly why Telemann was so popular in his own day: the music is colorful, extremely witty, and seemingly flowing from an inexhaustible font of invention, and Sorrell and company have ...
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This group of Telemann pieces was recorded in 2002 for the U.S.-based Koch International label, now defunct. It remains a sterling Telemann release, and Avie deserves credit for spotting it and putting it into circulation once again. The Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra Apollo's Fire and conductor Jeannette Sorrell pick a program that shows exactly why Telemann was so popular in his own day: the music is colorful, extremely witty, and seemingly flowing from an inexhaustible font of invention, and Sorrell and company have agility and lightness. In national-flavored pieces like the Concerto Polonois, TWV43:G7, and in the two programmatic pieces at the end, lie the first roots of musical Romanticism. The high-spirited Concerto for flute and recorder in E minor, TWV52:e1, is an abstract work that fits well with the extramusical referents in the rest of the pieces. Most delightful of all is the Grillen-Symphonie, TWV50:1, an actual three-movement symphony from the late 1750s or early 1760s that shows the...
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