Featured Selection: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields plays Telemann Recorder Works.

Concerto in F Major for Recorder, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo Klaus Thunemann, Bassoon

Concerto in E Minor for Recorder, Flute, Strings and Continuo William Bennett, Flute

Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and Continuo

Michala Petri, Recorder

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Iona Brown, Director

"When there is nothing new to be found in melody, then one must look for it in harmony," Georg Philipp Telemann wrote to a friend. The three works heard on this featured release prove that their composer found what he was looking for.

The Suite in A minor, in seven movements, is modeled on the suite form developed at Louis XIV's court. In the E minor Concerto, recorder and flute are paired for the first time in the concert literature of that era. In the F major Concerto, Telemann paired the alto recorder with a bassoon; the bassoon can be replaced by a cello or bass viola da gamba, demonstrating the flexibility characteristic of the period.