TELEMANN GEORG-PHILIPP

(2-CD) PASSIONS-ORATORIUM
Telemann was a prolific composer, writing over 40 Passions (musical compositions reflecting on the final days of Jesus' life) for the Church of Hamburg alone. His Passion oratorios, of which he wrote six, differ in that they do not strictly adhere to the literal text of the Gospels, instead making use of literary and operatic techniques. Indeed, in the case of Das selige Erwagen des bittern Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christi (written around 1722), Telemann took it upon himself to write the libretto, and his status as one of the most famous ...
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(3-CD SET) 36 FANTASIAS FOR HARPSICHORD
While Telemann is, today, considered among the very greatest of Baroque composers, he was one of the last of the period to be reappraised by later generations, and his music had to be 'rediscovered', just as that of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi was. Despite this, he enjoyed a great deal of fame during his lifetime, and his long career resulted in a vast output. He was, in fact, one of the most prolific composers of any age, and travelled widely, assimilating different styles into his own compositions. This allowed him to produce music of such ind...
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(CD) VIRTUOSO
Despite not quite achieving the stellar fame of his contemporaries, Bach and Handel, Georg Telemann remains a stalwart of German Baroque music, having composed over 3000 works during his lifetime. His instrumental music is characterised by its extraordinary vivacity and daring joie de vivre, remaining some of his most frequently performed works today. This recording brings together a collection of the composer's rich and lyrical ensemble music, exemplifying his wide-ranging influences. Starting from his German roots, Telemann also drew in...
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(2CD) ORCHESTRAL SUITES
Alongside his innumerable cantatas and his Tafelmusik, Telemann applied himself with enormous skill to the writing of Ouvert?ren, the orchestral suites in the French style which were so highly esteemed in the German-speaking lands. His suites, full of humour, imagination and impish gaiety, display the outstanding artistry of a composer who brought a new light-hearted spirit to German music. All of them bear witness to the exceptional stylistic qualities of Telemann, the most famous composer in Baroque Germany during the first half of the 1...
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(CD) CANTATAS AND CHAMBER MUSIC WITH RECORDER
Born in Magdeburg in 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann rejected a vocation in law, insisting that music was to be his focus. An organiser of concerts and a publisher of musical scores, he was a highly versatile entrepreneur as well as a throughouly 'modern' musician, one who remained at the forefront of musical innovation throughout his career. Today he is widely regarded as Germany's leading composer during the first half of the 18th century. This release is centered around four cantatas taken from the composer's Harmonischer Gottesdienst ('Mu...
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(5CD) FUGUES, OVERTURES, PRELUDES AND SUITES, TWV 30-32
Self-taught composer Georg Telemann was a friend and contemporary of J.S. Bach - and more admired than the great organist during their lifetimes. Telemann, who continued to write music well into his 80s, constantly put younger composers to shame with his fashionable compositions, always keeping up with the latest trends. Pictorial music, often influenced by Telemann's impish sense of humour, is characteristic of much of the composer's work, and his compositions for keyboard are no exception. These works represent a relatively small, and of...
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(CD) SCHERZI MELODICHI
What can one do with the seemingly inexhaustible output of Telemann, beyond perhaps sitting back and enjoying its good humour and melodic fecundity? The conceit behind this little-recorded set of chamber music, first published in Hamburg on 19 June 1734, is the quotidian matter of the days of the week: seven suites, each of seven movements, most of the movements hardly exceeding a couple of minutes, alternating slow ariettas with quick contrapuntal or dance-based pieces, all of which betray an Italian influence on their instrumentation and...
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(CD) TRAUER-ACTUS
No composer achieved greater renown in Baroque Germany than Telemann; even Johann Sebastian Bach suffered from his position of supremacy. Telemann composed some 1,500 sacred cantatas, taking the genre into new territories with an exegetic commentary and above all an expressiveness often reminiscent of the language of opera....
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(8-CD SET) OVERTURES
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) was one of the most prolific composers of the 18th century; although the largest part of his compositional activities were devoted to vocal music, he wrote a substantial number of overtures, which this splendid 8-disc collection is dedicated to. Although Telemann chose the title of 'Overtures', this was somewhat interchangeable with the genre of the Suite in his era. Each work opens with a three-part French overture, and this is followed by a series of varied, shorter pieces -- encompassing everything fro...
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(2CD) COMPLETE OVERTURES (VOLUME 3)