I have the Tafelmusik played by Musica Amphion on the Brilliant label, & enjoy it for its freshness, vitality and variety. Telemann's music gives me lots of pleasure, but I feel that if I'd heard the Paris quartes first I may never have followed up my interest in this first-rate composer; so far, they just don't grab me like many of his other works do.
There's a 5-CD set on Capriccio that's well worth a look.

 

Well now - isn't *that* good news! You mean it gets better?

To be honest, by the end of that set of quartets, I was getting a little bored. They are lovely, but after about 90 minutes - it started to get a little repetetive or perhaps my ears were getting tired.

jhar - is this the set you have?

4 discs, $18 bucks. Thats very reasonable.
http://www.amazon.com/Telemann-Tafe...Complete-Box-Set/dp/B0002IQBAS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1226958745&sr=1-1

 

I agree with Mark. I have the Musica Amphion set of Tafelmusik too and if you like baroque music you'll definitely enjoy that one.

 

I love Telemann music. I'm afraid with so many pieces and so many different ways of cataloging them, I loose track of what I already have and they all start to blend together -- though they are no more repetitive than any other baroque. (I never bought into the old saying that Vivaldi wrote one great concerto -- 500 times.)

My favorite Telemann piece (that I have heard of course) is something about a Suite for flute (or two flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon) and continuo in some key or other. The trouble is I can never find it, not sure if it's in my collection now, even. That's one good thing you can say about pop music - you can at least remember the the names of the pieces.

Anyway, if you happen upon any of the suites for various instrument combinations outside of Tafelmusik (a.k.a overtures), they are quite good too. The man was brilliant.

 

(I never bought into the old saying that Vivaldi wrote one great concerto -- 500 times.)

I do And, at least for me, it applies to Telemann, too, except the Tafelmusik and the Passions. Also, being a huge Bach fan, Telemann seems far inferior by comparison.

 

I just got my set of tafelmusic in. Going to give it a listen....

(rubbing hands together in greedy anticipation...)

I see, by the way, that this is on the 'Brilliant Classics' label... these people (again) appear to put out some quality product at very attractive prices.

 

I am very much digging tafelmusik.

 

Cool, I'm glad you do.

 

Tafelmusik

SO over the last week I have listened to all of Telemans Tafelmusic a several times. For me, thats quite a bit, since there is about 4.5 hours of it.

It really is very good. I particularly like the concertos and quartets that feature trumpet and oboe. I hate to use the term 'light'... perhaps ebulliant or bouyant is more accurate, but it is not too overwhelming and does indeed make fantastic 'table music'. There is just enough Dolce/Adante/Grave pieces to keep it from wearing you down. The ever present harpsichord throughout does (to me) get a little challenging - but I can see this is going to become one of the pieces of music that I will reach for often.

It made for a fantastic background to our Thanksgiving day festivities, and you can just let the entire thing play straight through.

Anyone else think that the first Quartet in part 1 (G major) sounds quite a bit like Handels Royal Fireworks or Watermusic? Not as majestic no doubt, but to me it seems quite similar.

 

help with Telemann please!

Hi there,

I wonder if anyone can help. I have this CD of Telemann's complete Trio sonatas for violin, flute and BC and also Oboe, recorder and BC. It is on a double CD on the Brilliant Classics label and the performers are Biondi and Tripla Concordia...

Does anyone else have it? If you do or you have the following Trio Sonata by Telemann - TWV 42 d10 could you tell me what key is it in? I got this Cd from a friend and I found the info on Amazon as well as two other sites but it says it is in D Major but just listen to it. It is clearly in a Minor key. (This is what you would call a definition of **** )

Maybe you know why it is misnamed. Did Telemann do things like this? Maybe you have a CD booklet explaining.

A bit of a curiosity.

Thanks!

Jai

 

If you do or you have the following Trio Sonata by Telemann - TWV 42 d10 could you tell me what key is it in?

Key = D Minor.

See here

 

Ah.. so a misprint that was on a few sites. Must have copied it around. I never thought of finding it on another release. Thanks Artemis. I don't know if you a Baroque fan but it is really great stuff.

 

I don't know if you a Baroque fan but it is really great stuff.

Yes I am. I have tons of it. Telemann is one of my favourites.

 

I am still in love with Tafelmuzik.

If that is not an artistic ejaculation of the highest order... well then I dont know what is.

 

The new Telemann fan page

Since I can't find the old one. Perhaps my favorite earlier composer after CPE Bach, and I'm just getting started with him. I'm learning first keyboard Fantasias(Fantasies?) in D major/B minor and D minor/not sure yet, nice little irregular pearls that they are. I almost consider Telemann the definition of baroque, he's the poster composer for me of that period, and don't be offended, I still love Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Purcell and others, its just that to me Telemann is what baroque is all about.

Taffelmusik in B flat major, the overture suite is what first got me really into Telemann. I heard Ton Kupmann(spelling his name phonetically) perform it live at the Seattle symphony and almost liked it better than the CPE Bach they performed.

I'm also a huge fan of his flute/recorder fantasias, being a recorder player. I'll eat up any Telemann you throw my way.

 

I'm also a huge fan of his flute/recorder fantasias, being a recorder player. I'll eat up any Telemann you throw my way.

I have this :

his sonatas for two recorders (without bass continuo), played by Michala Petri and Elisabeth Selin for RCA, CD released 1990. Well, I'm not a recorder player and can not say anything about this recording, but always enjoy listening to these sonatas.

 

Here's the real Telemann thread. If only I'd scanned a few more pages!

 

My favorite Telemann piece is his Suite for flute (or recorder) in A minor. For some reason I enjoy the transverse flute a bit more than the recorder. The recorder can sound wonderfully lacy and antique, but often sounds out of tune to me. I wonder why.

I almost wish Telemann had not been so prolific. I have trouble remembering and cataloging specific pieces. Some CD's will call a piece part of Tafelmusik, while another will just call it a sonata, and still another may put a TWV number along with it. It's very frustrating.

 

Choosing only one Telemann recording, based on the limited knowledge I have of his works, it would be this - very varied and catchy pieces, excellently played and worthy to supplement, say, the Bach and Vivaldi orchestral classics:

(photo from the web)

 

Nice thread. I enjoy Telemann's music. I think he was particularly fine when it came to instrumental music, be it the multi-movement concerto, orchestral suites or various chamber pieces such as trios and quartets. The record label CPO is releasing his violin concertos under Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque violin) with a period instrument band. Also on that label features numerous of his vocal music, in particular cantatas and passions (all done by period instrument groups).

I cannot help but reiterate how wonderful these pieces come through under experienced HIP bands.

 

Telemann was the most favorite German composer at his time, even more than Handel (If we take he was really a German but later inspired by Italian and English music), It's a shame that his music had been forgotten for a long time.

I love his Concerto for Viola, his most famous and one of my all-time favorites.

 

Listening to Tafelmusik right now. Very relaxing music. Definitely a Vivaldi influence (but lighter) as probably most Baroque is influenced by Vivaldi, Corelli, and etc. I love the cd cover artwork. I also hear some Classical Era sounds.

 

So many good ouverture suites, its unreal.

 

Yeah it's beautiful. Love the flute sound. The harpsichord is always nice as well. The last hints of Baroque before the Classical Era takes over.

 

Good time to bump this thread as Brilliant Classics just came out with a 8 cd boxset of Telemann's Overtures at a budget price. Clavichorder would love this.

 

Right now I'm enjoying one of his most charming cantatas. This time around he didn't take it very easy on the flute player. And the recitative is marvelous, even better than Bach's recitatives in my opinion, because his turns are at times more modally and tonally novel, and spaced better too. The lilting melody really does give compliments to the period between late Baroque and Classical (the Rococo).

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I don't know much Telemann, but I heard the Darmstadt Overtures (Suites) recording with Helmut Muller-Bruhl on Naxos years ago and remember really loving it.

I've been getting more into Baroque age classical lately and I just picked up the 29CD Telemann Edition from Brilliant Classics and am looking forward to diving into it.

 

I got that set recently. Telemann is OK, but he's no Vivaldi or Handel. There is some good stuff in that box to be sure... But an awful lot of it is hooty hoot toodley toot background music for while you eat dinner.

 

You are free to your opinion but your opinion is WRONG! I don't know how to rank them but Telemann is one of the Composers I listen to most.

 

I don't listen to music when I eat dinner. I'm old fashioned...Telemann (and Baroque music in general) is perfect for Sunday mornings, reading an actual Newspaper on the front porch while having a cup of coffee or tea in the crisp autumn air

 

Can you recommend something to me. I have thirty CDs of Telemann in this set and all that keeps coming up in rotation is flutophone tootles. Is there anything like Haydn's Concerto Gosso op 6 or Vivaldi's Chamber Concertos?

 

Tafelmusik is great. I'm sure you got that one though. Also enjoying his Trumpet Concertos.

 

I'll check them out right now.