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Quelle bonne idée que cette collection écolo d'Atma reprenant quelques enregistrements intéressants du label en en forçant le minutage et en adoptant cet habillage écopack. Une ouverture, deux concertos, une sonate et une cantate pour faire connaître Telemann au néophyte, parfait. Interprétation tout à fait louable même si nous sommes loin de la fougue de Goebel et de ses Musica Antiqua. Un Telemann aéré, presque posé par instant mais toujours vif, dansant. De la bien bel ouvrage.
5.0 out of 5 starsDon't Let the Dorky Cover Dissuade You!
Reviewed in the United States on 29 August 2009
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Telemann is the patron saint of the 'Recorder'. His music for recorder - both as a concertizing instrument and as an obbligato in large-scale works - is of such excellence that it's hard to comprehend why the instrument fell into disuse. If your previous conception of the recorder is of a plastic whistle used to torment the parents of elementary schoolers, this is a CD you MUST hear! The recorder playing of Matthias Maute (Ensemble Caprice) and Francis Colpron (Les Boreades) is awesome. Intimidating. Extraterrestrial. I've never heard a more virtuosic performance.
By the way, "flute a bec" is French for 'recorder,' in case you don't know that.
The Cantata "Seele, lerne dich erkennen" - tracks 15-17 - uses the recorder for an absolutely torrential obbligato accompaniment of the voice. Soprano Monica Mauch delivers one of her finest performances ever, perfectly tuned and balanced, eloquently phrased and decorated. Mauch can sometimes sound almost defiantly "white" in timbre - 'white' meaning countertenorish, without a trace of vibrato. Here she modulates her powerful straight tone with sprightly, coquettish delicacy.
When is "charm" not synonymous with superficiality? Listen to this performance and learn.
