BASSORILIEVI

 

Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681 - 1767)

 

TRIOS e QUARTETS with FLAUTO TRAVERSO and VIOLA DI GAMBA

 

...Bassorilievi, from Italy are surely right to emphasise the predominantly ‘dolce and cantabile affects’ characteristic of their two principal instruments, favouring a rich and warmly balanced sound over one of brightly separated colours. The bassoon, for instance, used sometimes on the bass-line in the sonatas, is kept well under control, and indeed combines with gamba so well in the B minor Concerto that it almost sounds like a gently squeezed accordion. They are most effective in the Adagio that opens the B minor Concerto, mysterious, probing and pulsing... (Lindsay Kemp Gramophone)

 

...In fact, this is among the nicest recital of this repertoire I have heard...(Brian Clark Early Music Review)

 

Il CD include la registrazione completa delle sei Trio Sonate per Flauto, Viola da gamba e basso continuo, e dei due Quartetti (Concerti) per Flauto, Viola da gamba, Fagotto e Continuo di G. Ph. Telemann.

Tutti i brani sono originariamente in manoscritto, eccetto per la Sonata TWV: h4, che fu edita nella collezione Essercizi Musici (1739/40).