Telemann The Autograph Scores

Standage Simon Collegium Musicum

Telemann The Autograph Scores
Format
Audio
Published
24 April 2012
ISBN
0095115078723

Telemann The Autograph Scores

Standage Simon Collegium Musicum

Catalogue # CHAN0787

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Collegium Musicum 90 was founded by Simon Standage and the late\nRichard Hickox in 1990, and is today a well-established ensemble\nfor the performance of baroque and classical music, with a\nrepertoire ranging from chamber music to large-scale works for\nchoir and orchestra. As an exclusive Chandos artist, the ensemble\nhas recorded more than fifty CDs for the label, which includes nine\ndiscs of instrumental music by Telemann. In recognition of the\nsuccess of the Telemann series in promoting the reputation of the\ncomposer, Simon Standage was awarded the\nGeorg-Philipp-Telemann-Preis in 2010.

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The works presented here all survive in autograph scores, or\nhave autograph connections. Today only eighteen such scores of\ninstrumental music survive from Telemann’s long and prolific career\nas a composer, and nine of them are included in a collection that\nbelonged to his grandson Georg Michael Telemann.

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The Ouvertures-Suites in F major and D major, as well as the\nDivertimento in E flat, form part of this autograph collection, and\nwere composed by Telemann in the 1760s when he was in his eighties,\nfor His Highness the Landgrave of Darmstadt, Ludwig VIII. In a\nletter that accompanied the scores, Telemann wrote that he had\ngiven up composing due to his deteriorating eyesight, but upon\nreading in the newspaper of the Landgrave’s approaching name day,\nhe ‘became filled with enthusiasm and made a draft for the enclosed\nworks’.

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The Concerto in D major belongs to an earlier period in\nTelemann’s life, as does the Ouverture-Suite in A major. Both these\nworks present less of a direct link to the composer. The Concerto\nsurvives only in parts, and the personal touch by Telemann is\nprovided by a correction in the surviving parts. The\nOuverture-Suite is one of comparatively few ouvertures-suites by\nTelemann in which a solo instrument (in this instance, a solo\nviolin) plays a prominent role throughout. There are currently some\ndoubts about the authenticity of the handwriting in the score.

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Telemann:
\nOverture Concerto in A major TWV 55:A7 for Violin, Strings &\nB.c.
\nOverture in F major, TWV55:F16
\nConcerto TWV 43:D4 D major
\nOverture in D Major TWV55:D23
\nFanfare in D major, TWV50:44
\nDivertimento in E flat major, TWV50:21

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

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