When Rudi Kelber conducted parts of this work in the rear courtyard of the City Hall (Hamburg) for a commemorative ceremony with a sumptuous buffet and many dignitaries and Big Wigs present, around 1990, the intention of honoring Hamburg and, most of all, Telemann, was clear. But true to the general populace at large, the moment the buffet was declared "fair game" to the public at the open air event, about 1/3 of the audience began nattering without listening, eating their voulevants, sipping free champagne. It was asking too much for all of them to listen, I know. On the other hand, Klaus Mertens was one of the bass soloists, as he is here with the esteemed Michael Schopper, and it was more than a rich reward to have the amazing Privilege of singing in the chorus and hearing his performance against the "white noise" of the merry-makers with the Vokalensemble of Sankt Jakobi and its very able orchestra. It was perhaps no different over 260 years before.
Comparing? You insist? - There's no other baroque composer who ever could have written that overture, let alone, the rest. Telemann is simply without equal
It took one hundred years for Bach's music to come back to performance. It has taken two hundred and fifty years for Telemann's music to come back to performance. Now we can begin to see that the Baroque age in Music was like a musical redoing of the Romanesque and Gothic age in Sculpture, Architecture, Stained Glass, Tapestries. These are the ages that exhibit an enthusiasm, creativity, joy, exuberance, innovation that show the Christian European Spirit at its best and highest. Now with the great age of Astronomy burgeoning and extrasolar planets able to be seen and discovered to have life we can consider the enormous overflowing giving of the ROMANESQUE-GOTHIC-BAROQUE as an artistic prophecy of the scientific discovery of God's created Universe.
Nice. Except you could have included Händel to complete the trio with Bach and Telemann . I think his music never really left performance in Britain, even if only The Messiah and Coronation Anthems, and was even rewritten by Mozart who was more Classical. I certainly agree about Telemann; his music beyond Tafelmusiek has long been neglected and it is a joy to see new interest. But I have no idea what you mean by "the scientific discovery of God's created Universe" - when did that happen? Whether a god created it or not, the Universe was surely always there to see? What was "discovered" exactly ?
J'ose dire que Telemann est aussi grand et génial que Bach. Sa musique est si diverse car elle répond admirablement à tous les goûts et aux désirs des personnes de son époque... Danke sehr Herr Telemann
A truly Magnificent Work of topographical pride & beauty, of richly woven, diverse & interesting Musik, both Choral & Instrumental! It simply flows with a dazzling Muisco~poetic brilliance!! Like the Scurrying Waves of sheer imagination (Afflatus??) impetus! Superb musical depictions or "Tonmalerei!!" A musical feast in anybody's book Book!! Ravishing musical Vistas of a bygone age & style!
Telemann lived to be ８６years old , had friendship with Bach , involved in every song and is prolific . It is a genius musician who sees rarely . It is regrettable that we do not know the name so much . Telemann is a almighty musician . There is something we are incalculable .
My acquaintance with Telemann is slight, but after listening to his "Wassermusik" yesterday and this work today, I want to hear more. Many thanks for paying attention to him.
This music is simply divine! Yet it is more than obvious that this belongs do a certain codex. It is authentic, but not new in time. Regardless it is wonderful!
Carolus, I am looking for "Lesson 18" of Telemann's Der Music Meister, but can't find it under that title, if it can be called a title. Can you help? You seem to be the expert.
Mieke van der Sluis, Hammonia (soprano) Graham Pushee, Thamis (tenor) Rufus Müller, Mercurius (tenor) Klaus Mertens, Neptunos (bass) David Thomas, Mars (bass) Michael Schopper, Albis (bass)
Mieke van der Sluis, Hammonia (soprano) Graham Pushee, Thamis (tenor) Rufus Müller, Mercurius (tenor) Klaus Mertens, Neptunos (bass) David Thomas, Mars (bass) Michael Schopper, Albis (bass)
Telemanns "Wassermusik". El conceito es com certeza un poco diferente, por exemplo è cantata not instrumental. But it is certainly comparável. Händel sicher had the Vorteil with his royal patronage and dieses Werk ist certainement zu lang und muss edited werden. Mais si tu aimes la musica baroca, je suis sûr vous allez apreciar.
Musevendyi Caro Ian, I listened to this piece again today. Ich muss gestehen, es gefiel mir sehr, hauptsaechlich die arien. Maintes des elles sont inspirees (IMO). The rest of the music less so, and as far as the text goes, e migliore che quasi tutti non lo capiscono. Sencillamente disfrutar la musica!
+Van MtCristo You can see in the painting the very first two german warships: the Hamburg convoy ships "Leopoldus Primus" and "Wappen von Hamburg". It is a painting from appr. 1680.
Mmmmmmm . . . she sounds a little like Florence Foster Jenkins on those high notes (or maybe the Divine Anna Russell as "the piercing-type British soprano").
Elias Galli, about 1680. You see the first german Battleships in History, "Lepoldus Primus" and "Wappen von Hamburg", built as to protect Hamburg ships against the (muslim) pirates (from North Africa).
+Jorge Felipe Ospina Sardi Nope. JS Bach was the greates musician of all times. He was the first composer who composed in all (!) keys. He did a great job in fixing the keys. Compare: What was before JS Bach and what was after him? Then you will realize the change he had produced. Even pop and jazz music bases on what was determined by JS Bach.
+Vivaldi_rocks To categorize Telemann you have to refer to his multiple deep and heart felt passions, his several entertaining and comic operas, his more than a thousand beautiful and inspirational cantatas and oratorios, his many spectacular commemorative pieces, his various majestic trumpet and horn concerts, his memorable oboe and recorder or flute concerts, his dozens intricate string concerts, his hundred or so sonatas for every kind of likes and possibilities, his more than sixty very touching fantasias, and so on. In comparison to Bach's, Telemann's music is more sophisticated in the interrelations between different kind of instruments and in the interrelations between instruments and voices. Telemann's was ahead of his time in many of his musical works, while Bach could not get out of the boring baroque strait jacket he put himself in. For me, Telemann's music is more melodic, more moving, more enjoyable, more entertaining, and less predictable than Bach's.
+WA_rocks If we want to find out, how "great" a person was, we only have to compare what was before him and what was after him. Befor JS Bach musicians didn't agree about tonality. There was several sorts of tunings. After him, there was - just one! Every pop song bases on what JS Bach left us. He was the first composer who composes in every key. Vivaldi, for instance, never composed a B flat minor chord. Other great composers, who changes the wide field of music, were Haydn, Mozart and Beehoven.
Natürlich ist der Text aus heutiger Sicht unsäglich albern, aber man sollte ihn aus seiner Zeit heraus verstehen. Die Texte manch "klassischer" Popsongs sind auch nicht besser. Entscheidend ist für mich jedoch die Musik Telemanns und die ist sehr farbig und einfallsreich.
Meine Güte, was für ein peinliches Machwerk! Als Komponist hätte ich mich geweigert, einen solchen albernen Text zu vertonen. Als Sänger würde ich mich weigern, so etwas zu singen. Das ist ja nur noch peinlich.
Man darf einen Text aus der Barockzeit sicher nicht an heutigen Maßstäben messen. Ob unsere heutige Zeit bessere poetische Ergüsse hervorbringt, darf im Übrigen bezweifelt werden.
