Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer: Capricornus Consort Basel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Christophorus
Catalogue: CHR77482
Release: 2025
Size: 1.32 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV40:200
01. I. Affettuoso
02. II. Allegro
03. III. Vivace
Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5
04. I. Adagio
05. II. Allegro
06. III. Grave
07. IV. Allegro
Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV40:201
08. I. Grave
09. II. Allegro
10. III. Adagio
11. IV. Vivace
Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1
12. I. Allegro
13. II. Largo
14. III. Allegro
Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV44:11
15. I. Affettuoso
16. II. Allegro
17. III. Adagio
18. IV. Presto
Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV44:33
19. I. Grave
20. II. Allegro
21. III. Adagio
22. IV. Vivace
Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 8 “Gulliver’s Travels”
23. I. Intrada
24. II. Lilliputsche Chaconne
25. III. Brobdingnagische Gigue
26. IV. Reverie der Laputier, nebst ihren Aufweckern
27. V. Loure der gesitteten Houyhnhnms. Furie der unartigen Yahoos
Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4
28. I. Grave
29. II. Vivace
30. III. Presto – Grave
31. IV. Vivace
The new CD by the Capricornus Consort Basel is dedicated to Georg Philipp Telemann – exclusively works for strings in a wide variety of scorings, sometimes with and sometimes without basso continuo. Each of them documents – across various creative periods – Telemann’s fascinating wealth of musical ideas, his adept sense of form and style, his creative approach to tradition and his constant interest in artistic innovation.
Added to this is a large pinch of humour, which culminates in the eponymous ‘Gulliver’s Suite’:
Telemann sets the adventures of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver on his travels to music in absurd time signatures: The dwarves appear in 3/32nd time with tiny note values up to 128th, the giants can only perform the (otherwise fast) gigue very sedately due to huge note values or Telemann refers to the mathematical interest of the islanders by representing the time signature as a formula.
The Capricornus Consort Basel, highly praised for its subtle and sensitive interpretations and decorated with prizes, allows Telemann’s wealth of ideas to shine in a colourful way, which will hopefully convince even the last person who still thinks Telemann is a second-rate prolific writer of the opposite!
