Le theatre musical de Telemann / Fortin, Ensemble Masques

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
November 18, 2016
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      TELEMANN, GEORG PHILIPP
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Masques
    • PERFORMER
      Fortin
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 18, 2016
    • UPC
      3760014192562
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA256
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

"Tremendous fun!", "Scintillating!", wrote the journalists of Diapason and Classica about the most recent recording of Olivier Fortin and his ensemble, devoted to the rarely heard Romanus Weichlein, which received every honor from the French musical press (Diapason d'Or, Choc de Classica, FFFF Telerama). This year, the Canadian harpsichordist and his loyal band have decided to record Telemann, the 250th anniversary of whose death will be commemorated in 2017. Two anonymous musicians from the city of Hamburg wrote in 1728 that "Handel composes music" but Telemann composes "music and affects". The overture-suites by Telemann presented on this recording are written in a "mimetic' style: Les Nations, the Concerto Polonois, La Bizarre and the Burlesque de Quixotte explore a vast range of subjects and, even more than all his other works, reveal a man of the theatre, widely read, curious a humorist and a shrewd observer of the physical and political world around him.