Concertos For Recorder
classical CD · categorised by title
RRP £20.30 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Umbach, Elke Martha, Müller-Brühl, Helmut, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Rothert, Daniel
- Label
- Naxos Classics
- Barcode
- 9786307123673
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)Suite and Concertos for RecorderNo other composer wrote in his day so specifically for the recorder as the Magdeburg-born Georg Philipp Telemann. His way of composing for this instrument confirms that he himself must have concerned himself intensively with the technical and musical possibilities of the recorder. The high notes demanded of the instrument, for instance the high A and high E in the Concerto in F major, are proof of this, as are the rapid semiquaver repeated notes in the Menuett of the Concerto in C major. Telemann had a knowledge of all instruments and of their special features. An excerpt from his autobiography shows his endeavour to establish the particular qualities of an instrument and explore them: The violin after the organ is tackled the flute, oboe and trumpet too, the gamba follows along in the bass, only with here and there a trill. No, no, it is not enough that the notes just sound that you know only how to take your wares to market. Give each instrument what it can bear, so the player has pleasure and you have enjoyment from it. The works here played represent the recorder as a virtuoso solo instrument, largely removed from the limited range of expression assigned to it in the baroque period, such as the pastoral, scenes of love and the subject of death in laments and mourning. The Suite in A minor offers a store of the musical expression of feelings, of joy, love, longing, hope, shame, fear, courage, sadness, desp
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