Bach Son No. 19 -- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, also known as the "Bückeberg Bach" through his long association with the royal court in that town -- was by all counts industrious, loyal to his position and employers, generously good natured, and brimming with the talent inherited from his father. In other words, the second youngest Bach son ...
The reputation of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach has taken a harder hit than almost any composer of his relative stature in history. Conventional wisdom has it he was an irresponsible drunk who died penniless and left his family in a state of desperation as not long after his father died he went out the back door of the European musical establishment, ...
Georg Philipp Telemann's Fortsetzung des Harmonisches Gottesdienstes is a sprawling published collection of sacred cantatas, one cantata for every Sunday and feast day in the church calendar, 72 cantatas in all. This colossal project made its bow in 1731, and is actually a sequel to an equally huge collection that Telemann published in 1725, ...
Germany's CPO label specializes in intensive explorations of little-known repertory, and its efforts pay off with this highly enjoyable disc of chamber music from Telemann's era. Sebastian Bodinus is still lost in the miasma of history, known mostly through his music and not much even that way. These are not all "Quadri" (quartets) as promised by ...
The varied forces of Georg Philipp Telemann's instrumental music require a flexible ensemble to give a sense of the music's range. In this case, two German historical-instrument ensembles, La Stagione Frankfurt and the veteran Camerata Köln, join forces for a set of concertos with a delightfully varied set of soloists. This music has the odd ...
Germany's CPO label has presented the efforts of performers who have doggedly unearthed unknown music of various periods, especially the eighteenth century. With the voluminous corpus of concertos by Telemann, many of which exist only in manuscript, they enter a field with a lot of still-uncharted territory. This set of wind concertos is one of ...
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