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SKU/Barcode: 842977039863
Originally released in 2000, this recording was reissued by the budget Brilliant label in 2009. It's an entirely competent assortment of Telemann's chamber music for recorder, drawn from two collections: the amateur-oriented Der getreue Music-Meister (The Trusty Music Master) and the somewhat more challenging Essercizii Musici of several years later. The four sonatas from the former publication, appearing first, third, fourth, and sixth on the present disc, are for recorder and continuo, realized here with the common combination of harpsichord and cello. All are essentially in four movements (the Sonata in C major, TWV41:C5, at the beginning has a compound first movement and two other movements), with plenty of light, affecting French-style melody confidently rendered and with a bit of flair by recorder player Lorenzo Cavasanti of the Italian-Dutch group Tripla Concordia. The two sonatas from the Essercizii Musici were written for the unusual combination of recorder, harpsichord, and continuo (this is true even of the Sonata in B flat major, TWV42:B4, which lacks mention of the continuo in the tracklist). The group realizes this with a pair of harpsichords and cello, which seems less desirable than a more varied instrumentation with, say, a theorbo. The dual-harpsichord textures are busy, and one wonders how many households even in prosperous northern Germany owned a pair of keyboard instruments; a harpsichord was a major purchase, just as a piano is today. However, there's nothing that really impedes the listener's enjoyment of music that can, now as then, serve perfectly well as background to the dinner hour yet reveal numerous elegant small details to those who are listening for them. Well-engineered at an unspecified location in Montevarchi, Italy, with a pertinent overview (in English only, at least as released in the U.S.) of Telemann's career and of this music.
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