Post by erik on Jul 30, 2022 13:16:22 GMT -5
One of the masters of the German High Baroque period of the 18th century is in this week's Classical Works Spotlight with a work for three trumpets, and the recording in question features one trumpeter doing all three parts!
Telemann: CONCERTO IN D MAJOR FOR THREE TRUMPETS, TWO OBOES, TIMPANI, AND STRINGS, TWV 54
During his lifetime, which spanned the majority of the Baroque era and ended with his passing in 1767, when Haydn and a very young W.A. Mozart were bringing music into what became the Classical era, Georg Philipp Telemann was one of the most prominent and well-respected composers of the German Baroque. Following his death, however, Telemann, who had written nearly two thousand individual works in various forms (excepting symphonies), fell into obscurity for close to two centuries, while contemporaries like J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel, both of whom knew Telemann, saw their stock rise well into the 20th century. It was largely because of the emerging trend of trying to perform works of the Baroque and Classical periods on instruments from that period that Telemann regained at least some of the status that he had during the late 17th and 18th centuries. One of the works that gained a foothold in the Baroque repertoire during the 1980’s was the Concerto In D Major For Three Trumpets, Two Oboes, Timpani, and Strings. Given this instrumentation, it should surprise no one that this is a work that is frequently confused with the Third and Fourth Orchestral Suites of Bach or the Music For The Royal Fireworks of Handel. This “royal” or “militaristic” approach was very much on Telemann’s mind when he composed this in the first third of the 18th century. Its popularity, however, wasn’t totally apparent until numerous period instrument recordings of the work appeared in the 1980’s, and then when, with a combination of overdubs, American jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis made his own recording of it on a recording of Baroque-era trumpet works with the English Chamber Orchestra and Baroque-era specialist Raymond Leppard.
Trumpets/Overdubs: WYNTON MARSALIS
English Chamber Orchestra/RAYMOND LEPPARD (Sony Classics)
Included (Baroque Music For Trumpets):
Vivaldi: CONCERTO IN C MAJOR FOR TWO TRUMPETS AND STRINGS, RV 537
Telemann: CONCERTO IN B FLAT MAJOR FOR THREE TRUMPETS AND ORCHESTRA
Pachelbel: CANON IN D MAJOR FOR THREE TRUMPETS AND STRINGS
Michael Haydn: TRUMPET CONCERTO IN D MAJOR
Heinrich Biber: SONATA FOR EIGHT TRUMPETS AND ORCHESTRA
Telemann: CONCERTO IN D MAJOR FOR THREE TRUMPETS, TWO OBOES, TIMPANI, AND STRINGS, TWV 54
During his lifetime, which spanned the majority of the Baroque era and ended with his passing in 1767, when Haydn and a very young W.A. Mozart were bringing music into what became the Classical era, Georg Philipp Telemann was one of the most prominent and well-respected composers of the German Baroque. Following his death, however, Telemann, who had written nearly two thousand individual works in various forms (excepting symphonies), fell into obscurity for close to two centuries, while contemporaries like J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel, both of whom knew Telemann, saw their stock rise well into the 20th century. It was largely because of the emerging trend of trying to perform works of the Baroque and Classical periods on instruments from that period that Telemann regained at least some of the status that he had during the late 17th and 18th centuries. One of the works that gained a foothold in the Baroque repertoire during the 1980’s was the Concerto In D Major For Three Trumpets, Two Oboes, Timpani, and Strings. Given this instrumentation, it should surprise no one that this is a work that is frequently confused with the Third and Fourth Orchestral Suites of Bach or the Music For The Royal Fireworks of Handel. This “royal” or “militaristic” approach was very much on Telemann’s mind when he composed this in the first third of the 18th century. Its popularity, however, wasn’t totally apparent until numerous period instrument recordings of the work appeared in the 1980’s, and then when, with a combination of overdubs, American jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis made his own recording of it on a recording of Baroque-era trumpet works with the English Chamber Orchestra and Baroque-era specialist Raymond Leppard.
Trumpets/Overdubs: WYNTON MARSALIS
English Chamber Orchestra/RAYMOND LEPPARD (Sony Classics)
Included (Baroque Music For Trumpets):
Vivaldi: CONCERTO IN C MAJOR FOR TWO TRUMPETS AND STRINGS, RV 537
Telemann: CONCERTO IN B FLAT MAJOR FOR THREE TRUMPETS AND ORCHESTRA
Pachelbel: CANON IN D MAJOR FOR THREE TRUMPETS AND STRINGS
Michael Haydn: TRUMPET CONCERTO IN D MAJOR
Heinrich Biber: SONATA FOR EIGHT TRUMPETS AND ORCHESTRA