Tafelmusik
(Third series)
London Harpsichord Ensemble
Suite for two oboes and strings
Quartet for flute, violin, cello, and harpsichord
(flute, John Francis )
(violin, Manoug Parikian) (cello, Ambrose Gauntlett )
(harpsichord, Millicent Silver)
Concerto for two horns and strings (horns, Dennis Brain and Ian Beers) -
Continued at 7.5 p.m.
The term Tafelmusik was originally used to describe any kind of music played at feasts or banquets. In the eighteenth century, musical as opposed to culinary relishes gradually gained the upper hand, and what was once a pleasant accompaniment to a meal became in the hands of Telemann a highly-polished group of chamber works. Two of his three sets of Tafelmusik are to be heard in the present series of programmes, which will also include the humorous cantata The Schoolmaster. Denis Stevens