Telemann Chamber Music with Recorder

Experience the brilliance of Erik Bosgraaf—one of today’s most captivating recorder virtuosos—as he breathes vibrant life into Telemann’s richly inventive sonatas, quartets, and concertos for recorder and oboe. This joyful and expressive album showcases the composer’s deep understanding of the instrument, brought to life through Bosgraaf’s spirited playing and historically informed style.

Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann
Artist: Erik Bosgraaf recorder
Ensemble Cordevento

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'One of the most interesting and versatile recorder players on the scene, and indeed one known for his Telemann' - Gramophone
Having made five previous albums of Telemann on Brilliant Classics, Erik Bosgraaf has demonstrated a special affinity with this landmark figure of the German Baroque. For his latest recording, the Dutch virtuoso has turned to sonatas, quartets and concertos which feature the recorder alongside the oboe, creating a unique survey of Telemann’s chamber output.
As Bosgraaf remarks in his own booklet essay for the album, Telemann played the recorder himself (as well as a host of other instruments) and understood from intimate practical experience both the technical limitations and possibilities of the instrument.
According to Bosgraaf, Telemann is ‘the Baroque composer who wrote the most idiomatically for the instrument.’
Central to the album is a collection of six trio sonatas, four of them cast in minor keys, exploiting the melancholic timbre of the Baroque oboe.
In the same contemplative vein is an A minor Concerto a 7 for pairs of recorders, oboes and violins plus basso continuo. The D minor Quartet TWV 43:d1 is drawn from Telemann’s effervescent collection of Tafelmusik. Lightening the mood is a sparkling G major Quartet, TWV 43:G6, alongside several other quartets from TWV:43, all featuring the lively interplay that makes Telemann so satisfying to play as well as listen to.
In making this album, Bosgraaf has been reliving his youth, and his introduction to Telemann’s music at the age of 10: his aim was to recover a high-spirited vitality to the music in performance, which complements the remarkable invention and imagination of his approach to Telemann on his previous albums.

Tracklist:
Georg Philipp Telemann:
Concerto à 7 in A Minor, TWV 44:42:
00:00:00 I. Adagio
00:01:20 II. Allegro
00:03:22 III. Affettuoso
00:05:17 IV. Allegro

Quartet in D Minor, TWV 43:d1:
00:07:25 I. Andante
00:10:34 II. Vivace
00:14:39 III. Largo
00:17:54 IV. Allegro

Trio Sonata in F Major, TWV 42:F7:
00:22:33 I. Affettuoso
00:24:38 II. Allegro
00:26:20 III. Adagio
00:28:00 IV. Vivace

Trio Sonata in C Minor, TWV 42:c2:
00:29:46 I. Largo
00:32:25 II. Vivace
00:35:06 III. Andante
00:36:58 IV. Allegro

Concerto di camera in G Minor, TWV 43:g3:
00:40:09 I. [Allegro]
00:45:15 II. Siciliana
00:52:07 III. Bourrée
00:53:05 IV. Menuet – Trio – Menuet da capo

Quartet in G Major, TWV 43:G6:
00:57:25 I. Allegro
00:59:57 II. Grave
01:02:15 III. Allegro

Trio Sonata in G Minor, TWV 42:e8 (transposed):
01:04:59 I. Affettuoso
01:06:23 II. Vivace
01:07:58 III. Andante
01:09:19 IV. Presto

Trio Sonata in A Minor, TWV 42:a6:
01:10:49 I. Largo
01:13:09 II. Allegro
01:14:40 III. Cantabile
01:16:24 IV. Allegro

Trio Sonata (‘Concerto’) in F Major, TWV 42:F14:
01:19:35 I. Vivace
01:21:50 II. Loure
01:24:13 III. Tempo di menuet

Concerto à 7 in F Major, TWV 44:41:
01:26:56 I. Grave
01:29:14 II. Vivace
01:31:19 III. Adagio
01:32:03 IV. Allegro

Quartet in G Minor, TWV 43:g4:
01:34:30 I. Allegro
01:36:54 II. Adagio
01:39:01 III. Allegro

Trio Sonata in C Minor, TWV 42:c7:
01:43:05 I. Adagio
01:45:31 II. Allegro
01:47:02 III. Adagio
01:48:07 IV. Allegro

Quartet (‘Concerto’) in A Minor, TWV 43:a3:
01:49:46 I. Adagio
01:52:53 II. Allegro
01:54:42 III. Adagio
01:56:24 IV. Vivace

Trio Sonata in E Minor, TWV 42:e6:
02:00:41 I. Affettuoso
02:03:08 II. Allegro
02:05:13 III. Grave
02:06:53 IV. Allegro

Introduzzione & Suite à 3 in C Major, TWV 42:C1:
02:08:54 I. Grave – Vivace
02:11:05 II. Andante
02:12:32 III. Vivace (da capo)
02:13:53 IV. Xantippe
02:15:36 V. Lucretia. Largo
02:17:53 VI. Corinna
02:18:38 VII. Clelia. Spirituoso
02:20:01 VIII. Dido. Triste – Disperato

Trio Sonata in F Major, TWV 42:F9:
02:22:08 I. Allegro
02:24:09 II. Affettuoso
02:26:22 III. Presto

Trio Sonata in B-Flat Major, TWV 42:B4:
02:28:57 I. Dolce
02:31:02 II. Vivace
02:32:38 III. Siciliana
02:35:17 IV. Vivace

Trio Sonata in F Major, TWV 42:F15:
02:37:00 I. Largo
02:38:35 II. Allegro
02:40:20 III. Largo
02:41:42 IV. Allegro


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