The English Concert

Concertos by Dell’Abaco, Porpora, Marcello, Tartini & Telemann

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212054925
Catnr: SIGCD 549
Release date: 05 October 2018
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212054925
Catalogue number
SIGCD 549
Release date
05 October 2018
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About the album

This recording is a showcase for the leading instrumentalists of today’s English Concert, playing on 18th-century instruments and amongst the world’s finest musicians in the long tradition of the great Italian and German masters whose works they perform.

The English Concert is in 1973 opgericht door Trevor Pinnock en is al meer dan 40 jaar een leidend licht in de uitvoering van muziek uit de Barok en het Classicisme. Onder de huidige artistiek leider Harry Bicket, en met onderscheiden gastartiesten, spelen ze voortdurend met de passie, subtiliteit en technische beheersing die tijdens hun ontstaan tot stand werd gebracht.

Dat is de toewijding en passie die de musici elke uitvoering meegeven. The English Concert bestaat niet alleen uit thuis opgeleid talent, maar is in het bezit van een internationale cast van musici. Zij zijn ook solisten, gesteund door wetenschappelijke kennis van stijlen en genres. De hechte relatie tussen de musici zorgt voor een speciale klankmelange.

Deze opname brengt de vooraanstaande instrumentalisten van het huidige English Concert onder de aandacht. Ze spelen op 18e-eeuwse instrumenten en zijn onder de voortreffelijkste musici in de lange traditie van de grote Italiaanse en Duitse meesters, wiens werken zij uitvoeren.

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The English Concert

Founded in 1973 by Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert has been a leading light in the performance of Baroque and Classical music for for over 40 years. Under their present Artistic Director Harry Bicket and with distinguished guest artists they continue to perform with the passion, sophistication and technical mastery established at their creation. Such is the commitment and passion that their players bring to every performance. Drawn not only from home-grown talent, The English Concert can boast a truly international cast of musicians. Soloists in their own right, and backed-up by scholarly knowledge of style and genre, the close-knit relationship between their musicians makes for a truly special blend of sound. The English Concert is an orchestra which draws its inspiration...
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Founded in 1973 by Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert has been a leading light in the performance of Baroque and Classical music for for over 40 years. Under their present Artistic Director Harry Bicket and with distinguished guest artists they continue to perform with the passion, sophistication and technical mastery established at their creation.

Such is the commitment and passion that their players bring to every performance. Drawn not only from home-grown talent, The English Concert can boast a truly international cast of musicians. Soloists in their own right, and backed-up by scholarly knowledge of style and genre, the close-knit relationship between their musicians makes for a truly special blend of sound.
The English Concert is an orchestra which draws its inspiration from the elite orchestras of 18th-century Europe: its members are recruited from amongst Europe’s foremost instrumentalists who are led either from the harpsichord or by their principal violinist or Konzertmeister, just as were the famed court orchestras of Dresden, Munich, Mannheim Potsdam and others.


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Harry Bicket (conductor)

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Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the city's five main churches. While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann. Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history (at least in terms of surviving oeuvre) and was considered by his contemporaries to be...
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Georg Philipp Telemann (14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the city's five main churches. While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.
Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history (at least in terms of surviving oeuvre) and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time—he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. Telemann's music incorporates several national styles (French, Italian) and is even at times influenced by Polish popular music. He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies and his music is an important link between the late Baroque and early Classical styles.

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