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The Early Music Show

Music: Classical: Early Music

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: The Other Water Music

The Other Water Music

07/09/2013

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, The Other Water Music

Lucie Skeaping explores Telemann's orchestral suite Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth.

Lucie Skeaping explores Telemann's orchestral suite Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth and assesses its status as a colourful rival to Handel's Water Music.

Virtually unknown a few decades ago, Georg Philipp Telemann's orchestral suite 'Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth' (Hamburg Ebb and Flow) is fast becoming a rival to Handel's 'Water Music'. Written in 1723 to celebrate the centenary of the Hamburg Admiralty it tackles watery subjects such as the sea deities Thetis, Neptune and Triton, sporting Naiads and even the city's drainage channels! Lucie Skeaping explores the work and its musical context.

Contains a complete performance of the suite by Ensemble Zefiro, directed by Alberto Bernardini.

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