The advantage of the CPO label's completist approach to recording Telemann is that it hits the oddball works, which in this composer's case are often the most interesting. Under the unpromising title Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 3, are collected a pair of extremely unusual pieces that can only with difficulty be placed under the concerto heading. The term overture concerto used here is apparently the invention of musicologist Steven Zahn; it is not clear what Telemann himself would have called the first two works on the ...
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The advantage of the CPO label's completist approach to recording Telemann is that it hits the oddball works, which in this composer's case are often the most interesting. Under the unpromising title Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 3, are collected a pair of extremely unusual pieces that can only with difficulty be placed under the concerto heading. The term overture concerto used here is apparently the invention of musicologist Steven Zahn; it is not clear what Telemann himself would have called the first two works on the album. Elsewhere these pieces have simply been called overtures. At any rate, an overture concerto is a French overture or orchestral suite in the typical late Baroque manner, with an opening overture (just to make things confusing) followed by a sequence of dance movements. The wrinkle is that both suites feature episodes with solo violin. In the opening Overture Concerto in D major, TWV 55:D14, Telemann treats this set of formal possibilities with characteristic freedom and...
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