[11/20/2010] Sunday Classics preview: Baroque composers, like musicians before and since, had it bad for Italy, Part 2 (continued)

David Lloyd plays the opening Largo of Georg Philipp Telemann's G major Viola Concerto, with the Orquestra Raizes Ibericas (Lisbon) conducted by Richard Tomes, March 31, 2007. (The remaining three movements are also posted.)

by Ken

Yes, our first mystery composer is Georg Philipp Telemann.

TELEMANN: Concerto in C for Four Violins

[0:00] i. Grave
[1:09] ii. Allegro
[2:57] iii. Largo e staccato
[4:48] iv. Allegro
Philipp Naegele, Gerhard Ohnheiser, Masafumi Hori, and Ottavia Kortner, violins. Musical Heritage Society, recorded c1972

Tomorrow we're going to be hearing the whole of the Telemann G major Viola Concerto. Oh, did you somehow get the idea that it was an Italian composer we were hearing? Sorry about that. Meanwhile, I'm afraid I may have somehow misled you into thinking our second composer is also Italian. Here's our music properly identified.

HANDEL: Organ Concerto No. 6 in B-flat, Op. 4, No. 6

i. Andante allegro
Simon Preston, organ of the Queen Elizabeth Hall (London); Menuhin Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin, cond. EMI, recorded c1969
[0:00] ii. Larghetto
[4:27] iii. Allegro moderato
Marie-Claire Alain, Haerpfer-Ermann organ of the Église des Maronites (Paris); Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra, Jean-François Paillard, cond. Erato, recorded c1960

COMPLETING THE BACH "DOUBLE" CONCERTO

In last night's preview we heard the haunting Largo of Bach's D minor Concerto for Two Violins and Strings. Since we have more Bach on the menu for tomorrow, I thought we best hear the whole of the much-played "Double" Concerto tonight, from the same recording by I Musici.

BACH: Concerto in D minor for Two Violins and Strings, BWV 1043

i. Vivace

ii. Largo

iii. Allegro

Roberto Michelucci and Felix Ayo, violins; I Musici. Philips, recorded c 1960

IN TOMORROW'S SUNDAY CLASSICS POST

More "Italian" concertos -- by Bach, Handel, and Telemann.


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