Track Listing

1. Con for Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in D: 1. Moderato - Wilbert Hazelzet
2. Con for Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in D: 2. Allegro - Wilbert Hazelzet
3. Con for Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in D: 3. Largo - Wilbert Hazelzet
4. Con for Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in D: 4. Vivace - Wilbert Hazelzet
5. Con for 3 Ob, 3 Vn & Basso Bc in B flat: 1. Allegro - Peter Wester/Michael Niesemann/Piet Dhont
6. Con for 3 Ob, 3 Vn & Basso Bc in B flat: 2. Largo - Peter Wester/Michael Niesemann/Piet Dhont
7. Con for 3 Ob, 3 Vn & Basso Bc in B flat: 3. Allegro - Peter Wester/Michael Niesemann/Piet Dhont
8. Con for 2 Chl, Strs & Basso Bc in d: 1. Largo - Erik Hoeprich/Lisa Klewitt
9. Con for 2 Chl, Strs & Basso Bc in d: 2. Allegro - Erik Hoeprich/Lisa Klewitt
10. Con for 2 Chl, Strs & Basso Bc in d: 3. Adagio - Erik Hoeprich/Lisa Klewitt
11. Con for 2 Chl, Strs & Basso Bc in d: 4. (Vivace) - Erik Hoeprich/Lisa Klewitt
12. Con for Tpt, Strs and Basso Bc in D: 1. Adagio - Friedemann Immer
13. Con for Tpt, Strs and Basso Bc in D: 2. Allegro - Friedemann Immer
14. Con for Tpt, Strs and Basso Bc in D: 3. Grave - Friedemann Immer
15. Con for Tpt, Strs and Basso Bc in D: 4. Allegro - Friedemann Immer
16. Con for Rcr, Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in e: 1. Largo - Michael Schneider/Wilbert Hazelzet
17. Con for Rcr, Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in e: 2. Allegro - Michael Schneider/Wilbert Hazelzet
18. Con for Rcr, Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in e: 3. Largo - Michael Schneider/Wilbert Hazelzet
19. Con for Rcr, Trns Fl, Strs & Basso Bc in e: 4. Presto - Michael Schneider/Wilbert Hazelzet
20. Con for Tpt, Vn, Strs, & Basso Bc in D: 1. Vivace - Friedemann Immer/Reinhard Goebel
21. Con for Tpt, Vn, Strs, & Basso Bc in D: 2. Adagio - Friedemann Immer/Reinhard Goebel
22. Con for Tpt, Vn, Strs, & Basso Bc in D: 3. Allegro - Friedemann Immer/Reinhard Goebel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77292 in Music
• Released on: 1987-05-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Fizzy, Rollicking Baroque Delights
This is one of my absolute favorite CDs, and I'm happy to see that it's still available after some fifteen-plus years. In my book, the much-maligned G.Ph. Telemann is restored to the top of the class with this wonderful stuff from Reinhard Goebel and his MAK. Telemann, proflific as he was, did produce some music that will put you to sleep. But none of that exists on this zippy disc. This is rocket-powered Baroque music, played with style, assurance and obvious affection. The instrumental combinations are amazing and a pure delight; every concerto on this disc is a winner. Really.

Windy Olympics in Eisenach, 1712
Wind-instrument players are small-muscle athletes. Their virtuosity is based on innate physical endowments. Like it or not, it's so. The velocity of recorderist Michael Schneider's tongue-and-finger biathlon, on Telemann's Concerto in E minor, outpaces an ordinary person's fluency as much as Lance Amstrong's legs outpeddle us. Telemann's 100 or so concerti - many for woodwinds or brass - offer Olympic musical hurdles for wind players, and that's where the fun comes from.

But Telemann also seems infallibly to grasp the expressive potentials of the instruments he writes for, and to exploit them idiomatically. Did he perhaps play every instrument in the orchestra? It sounds as if he might have. The Concerto in D minor for Two Chalumeaux, for instance. The chalumeau was a brief experiment that quickly evolved into the clarinet and basset horn of Mozart's time. It lacks much forte potential, and its range is less than two octaves, but it has a wonderful, broad, cello-like tone. That's what Telemann chose to exploit, that woody tone, by writing most of this concerto as an exposed duet for the chalumeax, with the orchestra entering only at exclamation points. The Baroque trumpet, on the other hand, was a superbly evolved instrument with centuries of technique behind it - a radically different instrument from the valved modern trumpet, and in many ways more expressive and capable of greater virtuosity. If you don't believe me, listen to what Telemann has written for the instrument in his Concerto in D major, and what trumpeter Friedemann Immer is able to do with only his "chops"!

The word "chops" is universal wind-players' slang for embouchure and by extension for physical technique. The six concerti on this CD are all examples of magnificent chops. Violinist and director Reinhard Goebel plays second fiddle to Friedemann Immer on the final Concerto for Trmpet and Violin, but in the wider world of violin virtuosity, Goebel is second to no one, living or dead. His ensemble, Musica Antiqua Koeln, never fails to match Goebel's high standards. This CD is the height of elegant Baroque "easy listening", full of novelty and variety.

Superb playing
One of the best barroque recordings I've ever heard. I's musical, it's alive! I enjoyed the balance and sound quality of the instruments, and the incisively beautiful interpretation