Telemann La Changeante

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Composer or Director: Georg Philipp Telemann

Label: Chandos

Magazine Review Date: 4/1992

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 64

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DDD

Catalogue Number: CHAN0512

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Concerto for Violin and Strings No. 9	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for Violin and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Overture-Suite in B flat, 'Ouverture burlesque'	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for 2 Flutes, Violin, Cello and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Jane Coe, Cello Rachel Brown, Flute Simon Standage, Violin Siu Peasgood, Flute
Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Micaela Comberti, Violin Simon Standage, Violin

Composer or Director: Georg Philipp Telemann

Label: Chaconne

Magazine Review Date: 4/1992

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 63

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: CHAN0519

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Concerto for Violin and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for Flute, Violin and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Rachel Brown, Flute Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for 4 Violins and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Andrew Manze, Violin Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Micaela Comberti, Violin Miles Golding, Violin Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for Violin and Strings No. 3	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Overture-Suite in G, '(La) Changeante'	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for 4 Violins without Continuo	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Andrew Manze, Violin Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Micaela Comberti, Violin Miles Golding, Violin Simon Standage, Violin

Composer or Director: Georg Philipp Telemann

Label: Chaconne

Magazine Review Date: 4/1992

Media Format: Cassette

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: EBTD0519

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Concerto for Violin and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for Flute, Violin and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Rachel Brown, Flute Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for 4 Violins and Strings	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Andrew Manze, Violin Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Micaela Comberti, Violin Miles Golding, Violin Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for Violin and Strings No. 3	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Overture-Suite in G, '(La) Changeante'	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Collegium Musicum 90 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Simon Standage, Violin
Concerto for 4 Violins without Continuo	Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Andrew Manze, Violin Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Micaela Comberti, Violin Miles Golding, Violin Simon Standage, Violin

Author: John Duarte

A friend who arrived while I was playing through this set, and whose knowledge of music was limited, said: ''That sounds like happy music''—which it was, and who, given Telemann's open-door mind, fecund imagination and compositional fluency, would not be inclined to write a good deal of happy and serene music, of both of which there is an abundance on these two discs. The album titles, ''La Changeante'' and ''Ouverture burlesque'' are also those of the only two works that are not concertos; each evokes the Commedia dell'arte, either by direct reference or in spirit. Though the first and last movements of La Changeante are in the nominal key of G minor the intervening six are all in different keys: D, B minor, E minor, C, F, and B flat, a sequence that sounds less strange than it looks at first glance—dominant of G minor, its relative minor, then backwards through the sharps and forward through the flats en route for home. In the concertos he is more conservative: the slow movements are pitched either in the relative major or minor keys or, in two cases, the tonic minor. A few of these concertos have three movements, the rest have four, but as the slow opening to the final one of the Flute and Violin Concerto (in the Adagio of which the two soloists converse amiably over pizzicato strings) is no less weighty than the slow movements of some of the others the work may be counted as having five—fast-slow-fast-slow-fast; elsewhere the tempo scheme is slow/medium-fast-slow-fast but the three movement A minor Violin Concerto begins with an Adagio. In following Venetian examples Telemann might have said: 'I did it my way'. Eclecticism carries the risk of depriving a composer of his own identity but Telemann does not fall victim to it: from the Frenchness of La Changeante (and its title) to the Vivaldian echoes of the unison opening of the Flute and Violin Concerto and the first tutti of the final Presto of the Double Violin Concerto he remains recognizably his own man, able to transmute thematic base metal into small gems and to provide them with often surprising settings of instrumental colour and texture.
Bands come and bands go but these luculent, stylish, crisp and immaculate performances suggest that this one—with its first-class soloists, to form which Simon Standage severed his long connection with The English Concert—should run and run. Recording, balance and annotation (by our own NA) could hardly be better. Do not, repeat not miss these two complementary discs.'

Telemann, Vol.2 Ouverture burlesque

Concerto for Violin and Strings No. 9

Concerto for Violin and Strings

Overture-Suite in B flat, 'Ouverture burlesque'

Concerto for 2 Flutes, Violin, Cello and Strings

Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings