Telemann: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 6

Featuring

Elizabeth Wallfisch
The Wallfisch Band
Georg Philipp Telemann

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Compositional Technique

Telemann's 'Rodomontade' in the B minor suite is a musical 'Swaggerer's Show' that alludes to the Italian concerto style, featuring continuous fast sixteenth-note motion, tremolos, and arpeggiations.

Performer Biography

Elizabeth Wallfisch is a renowned teacher of baroque, classical, and modern violin, having taught for 15 years at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag and now at the Royal Academy of Music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Telemann's 'Réjouissances' are musical expressions of joy, reflecting a boundless worldly optimism and a positive worldview characteristic of his era.

Interpretation

The Wallfisch Band, co-founded by Elizabeth Wallfisch and harpsichordist Albert-Jan Roelofs, uses historical instruments and emphasizes a master/apprentice ethic, bringing together young talents and experienced artists.

Performer Biography

Elizabeth Wallfisch, the soloist on this album, is an Australian-born violinist and the granddaughter of conductor Albert Coates, who has lived in London for 45 years.

Compositional Technique

Telemann's so-called 'ripieno concertos' (Concerti ripieni) are ensemble music for strings that reproduce concertante structures without prescribing individual parts for solo instruments.

Composition History

The Sonata in B flat major (TWV 40:200) by Georg Philipp Telemann, which opens this album, was copied by violinist Johann Samuel Endler in Leipzig before 1715 and taken by him to Darmstadt in 1723.