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G.p. Telemann: Trio Sonatas For Recorder, Violin And Continuo

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Composer
TELEMANN, GP
Artist
Biondi, Cavasanti, Boersma, Ciomei
Format
CD
Label
Dynamic
Released
Oct 29, 2013
Catalog #
DYN-CDS7667
UPC
8007144076672

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TELEMANN Trio Sonatas: in d, TWV 42:d10; in a, TWV 42:a1; in F, TWV 42:F8; in f, TWV 42:f2; in a, TWV 42:a4; in f. Sonata in f, TWV 41:f1 • Fabio Biondi (vn); Tripla Concordia (period instruments) • DYNAMIC 7667 (52:13)


Fabio Biondi’s program of trio sonatas by Georg Philipp Telemann, apparently mastered in the late 1990s, corresponds to an identical program (same works in the same order) once listed as Stradivarius 33685 and not reviewed, so far as I can tell, in Fanfare . Tripla Concordia consists of Lorenzo Cavasanti (recorder), Caroline Boersma (cello), and Sergio Ciomei (harpsichord), and they lend almost bumptious support to the irrepressible Fabio Biondi, playing, in this case, a violin constructed by Desiderio Quercetani in 1991 after an 18th-century Neapolitan model. Danilo Prefumo’s notes explain that the ensemble has gathered together all of Telemann’s works for the combination of violin, recorder, and continuo, omitting other trio sonatas intended for recorder, treble viola da gamba, and continuo, previously considered to have been intended for violin.


The engineers come very close to the ensemble (and if the flute seems almost shrill on occasion, so does the violin on others); but the random breathing they’ve captured seems benign beside the amount of instrumental noise and multitudinous abrasive attacks they’ve registered, all of which might intimidate a faint-hearted listener (the recorded sound also gives the instrumental timbres a sharp edge that, it seems possible, might be an artifact). Nevertheless, there’s no gainsaying the irresistible élan of the ensemble’s reading of the first Sonata, with its three fast movements surrounding a slower second (all the sonatas comprise four movements, in which two fast movements generally provide a contrast with two slower ones). And the close, vibrant recorded sound, however pleasantly or unpleasantly it may strike the listener’s sensibilities from moment to moment, plays a significant role in creating the overall effect. In fact, the razor sharpness of the instrumental sound seems considerably more distracting in slow movements like the opening Adagio of the Sonata in F Minor (TWV 42:f2), rather than in headlong fast ones like the same Sonata’s Finale. The Sonata in A Minor, TWV 42:a4, seems perhaps the most balanced, with all the movements taking about two and a half minutes and alternating slow and fast in the pattern that had become pretty much standard. Yet, from my experience of the work as a performer, it seems to lack in this reading the exuberant energy that characterized the fast movements and the suavity that characterized the slow ones in their performances of the other sonatas. Recommended to those who may have missed this collection in what seems to have been an earlier incarnation and who take delight in this repertoire.


FANFARE: Robert Maxham

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 02:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  2. 2 II. Adagio 02:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  3. 3 III. Allegro 02:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  4. 4 IV. Presto 01:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Presto
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  5. 5 I. Affettuoso 02:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Affettuoso
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
    Conductor
    Fabio Biondi
  6. 6 II. Vivace 01:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Vivace
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
    Conductor
    Fabio Biondi
  7. 7 III. Grave 02:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Grave
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
    Conductor
    Fabio Biondi
  8. 8 IV. Menuet 03:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Menuet
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
    Conductor
    Fabio Biondi
  9. 9 I. Andante 02:09
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  10. 10 II. Allegro 01:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  11. 11 III. Largo 01:04
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Largo
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  12. 12 IV. Allegro 02:11
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  13. 13 I. Adagio 02:01
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  14. 14 II. Allegro 01:33
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  15. 15 III. Largo 01:31
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Largo
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  16. 16 IV. Adagio 01:21
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Adagio
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  17. 17 I. Largo 02:20
    Track
    17
    Title
    I. Largo
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  18. 18 II. Vivace 02:26
    Track
    18
    Title
    II. Vivace
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  19. 19 III. Affettuoso 02:56
    Track
    19
    Title
    III. Affettuoso
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  20. 20 IV. Allegro 01:21
    Track
    20
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  21. 21 I. Triste 02:14
    Track
    21
    Title
    I. Triste
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  22. 22 II. Allegro 04:12
    Track
    22
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  23. 23 III. Andante 01:24
    Track
    23
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia
  24. 24 IV. Vivace 01:56
    Track
    24
    Title
    IV. Vivace
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Georg Philipp Telemann
    Performer
    Fabio Biondi
    Ensemble
    Tripla Concordia