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Tuesday Classics - Telemann's Tafelmusik
Join Tuesday Classics Host David Schonfeld on August 23 and August 30 from 4-8 PM for a two-part broadcast of the complete Tafelmusik or Musique de Table by the Baroque composer George Philipp Telemann. "Composed in 1733, Telemann's Tafelmusik has been compared as a collection to the renowned Brandenburg Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach in clearly demonstrating the composer’s supreme skill in handling a diversity of musical genres and a variety of instruments" (Wikipedia). Telemann divided the work into three "Productions", each beginning with an orchestral Overture and ending with a orchestral Conclusion. In between, Telemann includes some of his finest music for small and large ensembles (solo sonatas, trio sonatas, quartets, and concertos).
We will listen to the Tafelmusik as recorded by the Freiburger Barockorchester in 2010. In addition, we will also sample the late keyboard sonatas of Giovanni Benedetto Platti in a recent release by Luca Guglielmi on fortepiano and harpsichord.