Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...

Experience the latest instalment in Australian baroque violinist and early music specialist Elizabeth Wallfisch’s epic series of recordings celebrating the music of Georg Philipp Telemann. The eighth ...

Telemann was probably the most prolific composer in musical history. He wrote almost as much as Bach and Handel put together (and each of them wrote a perplexing amount) including 600 French overtures ...

The natural world is a rich source of inspiration for creative minds … including composers! Georg Philipp Telemann composed a piece nicknamed the CRICKET SYMPHONY that features a cacophony of cricket ...

On this Labor Day holiday weekend, today's Beautiful Music is by one of the hardest-working musicians of the baroque era: Georg Philipp Telemann. In 1998, the Guinness Book of World Records named ...

Lucie Skeaping explores the folk music Telemann encountered on his brief sojourn in Poland and some of the pieces he composed with those influences at the forefront of his mind. Show more For just ...

One of Telemann's duties as Hamburg's municipal composer was to provide the music for an annual bash honouring the captains of the city's civic guard - a big, posh affair, during which a huge dinner ...

The 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death has not been widely marked, but this scintillating disc should reassert his claim to be one of the most inventive composers of the 18th century. The ...

This week's Feature Album, Telemann: Chamber Music For Bassoon and Guitar, showcases just how versatile the bassoon can be. It usually appears as an accompanying instrument, or one that sits in the ...

This is the first CD by the wind ensemble Syrinx, playing on baroque oboes and bassoons, natural horns, taille (tenor oboe) and harpsichord. • Handel was a genius And it is a terrific harbinger of ...