Telemann: Wind Overtures Vol. 1

Heerden, Carin van, L'Orfeo Bläserensemble

CPO 555085

Georg Philipp Telemann's extant works for wind ensemble take us into the unique region between military music, hunting music, and court music. However, these ensembles were active not only at the courts as part of the military staff but also influenced middle-class life in the towns through the garrisons stationed in them. Telemann was familiar with these ensembles both in the court and civic spheres, and about twenty works survive today in the characteristic wind instrumentation with woodwind instruments and a pair of horns, ten quintets of more than one movement, ten marches, and a wind version of the so-called Alter Overture TWV 55:F11. This CD presents five Quintets for Two Oboes (or oboi d'amore), Two Horns, and Bassoon (thoroughbass) – interpreted by the L'Orfeo Baroque Ensemble, which was established in 2009 with members from the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra in order to apply the orchestra's approach to the orchestral literature in the genuine dimensions of a chamber ensemble.

Works:

•Telemann: Overture à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:16
•Telemann: Concerto a 5 in D Major, TWV 44: 2
•Telemann: Overture in F major, TWV 44:8
•Telemann: Overture à 5 in D Major, TWV 44:14
•Telemann: Quintet in F Major, TWV 44:10

CD x 1

CPO

23.03.2018

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