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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Composer of the Week: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Episode 2: The Collaborator

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

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Episode 2: The Collaborator

The Collaborator

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Donald Macleod on how a trip to Poland inspired Telemann to experiment with folk flavours.

How a trip to Poland inspired Telemann to experiment with folk flavours. Plus how he worked with the best performers around him to create a series of very popular concerts.

It was his summer sojourns with perhaps his most enlightened employer which saw Telemann's musical outlook transformed. In Poland he heard enough folk songs in eight days to last him a lifetime.

Today we hear some of the fruits of those trips, brought vividly to life by the group Holland Baroque whose recordings are something of a mash-up of Telemann's music and the folk tunes of the day. Plus we discover how Telemann worked with the best performers around him to create a series of concerts so popular that a parking crisis ensued.

With Donald Macleod.

Les Janissaires, TWV.55:D17
Holland Baroque Society
Milos Valent, violin

Concerto in D for Trumpet and Violin, TWV.53:D5 
Ingeborg Scheerer, violin, Hannes Rux, trumpet
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider, director

Pastorelle (conclusion) 
Doerthe Maria Sandmann, soprano (Caliste)
Barbara Fink, soprano (Iris)
Mathias Haussmann, baritone (Damon)
Lydia Vierlinger, contralto (Amyntas)
Bernhard Berchtold, tenor (Knirfix)
Capella Leopoldina
Kirill Karabits, conductor

Suite in B flat 'Perpetuum Mobile' (and traditional Polish dances) 
Holland Baroque Society
Milos Valent, violin.

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