Erik Bosgraaf is one of the foremost and most adventurous recorder players of today. His modest instrument, the recorder, is for him an inexhaustible source...

Erik Bosgraaf is one of the foremost and most adventurous recorder players of today. His modest instrument, the recorder, is for him an inexhaustible source of inspiration and boundless possibilities. He improvises, plays jazz, uses electronics and likes to work with artists outside the box. For him there is no difference between early and contemporary music: “Early music is always new”. The sense of discovery permeates all his recordings of works by Telemann, of which he already released 4 albums for Brilliant Classics. This new recording presents Telemann’s sonatas for recorder, violin and B.C. Played by violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky, cellist Balazs Mate and harpsichord Alexandra Koreneva and the inimitable Erik Bosgraaf on recorder. The present recording includes all five surviving trio sonatas for recorder, violin and basso continuo by Georg Philipp Telemann. As an encore, there is a charming duet for recorder and violin Telemann published in 1728-29 in his music periodical Der getreue Music-Meister. There is also a duet for these two instruments hidden in the Trio Sonata in A minor (TWV 42:a1) which has no basso continuo in the trio section of the final menuet.