Il Fondamento is a Dutch historical-instrument orchestra, formed in 1989. It recorded this collection of suites in 1996, and it's here reissued on Belgium's Passacaille label with its original, unedited booklet notes; the reader learns that in the 18th century, the suite "became the more poplar counterpart of the learned symphony or sonata." The disc's chief value lies in the repertoire; the three suites are conceptually interesting and aren't terribly common. The Overture "La Bourse" (The Stock Exchange) referred to in the ...
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Il Fondamento is a Dutch historical-instrument orchestra, formed in 1989. It recorded this collection of suites in 1996, and it's here reissued on Belgium's Passacaille label with its original, unedited booklet notes; the reader learns that in the 18th century, the suite "became the more poplar counterpart of the learned symphony or sonata." The disc's chief value lies in the repertoire; the three suites are conceptually interesting and aren't terribly common. The Overture "La Bourse" (The Stock Exchange) referred to in the album's title received its name from a later editor, but the movement titles, including the intriguing "L'espérance de Mississippi" (The Hope of Mississippi, track 6), refer to stock-exchange phenomena, and the work apparently dates from a period in the 1710s during which Telemann lived in an apartment above the Frankfurt stock exchange. Some of Telemann's music is ingeniously programmatic, but it's hard for the general listener to hear any trace of Mississippi in the final...
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Add this copy of Overture La Bourse & Suites to cart. $31.10, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Passacaille.
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