Ensemble Hesperi - A Gift for your Garden (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Countless wealthy people in eighteenth-century Europe developed a passion for botany. This passion went far beyond the simple pleasure of gardens, reflecting rather a growing fascination with the natural world. German composer Georg Philipp Telemann shared this passion and energetically cultivated his collection, often begging friends and correspondents to send him specimens. The creative landscape of Telemann's life was undoubtedly filled with floral and musical colour. Ensemble Hesperi, a period ensemble based in London, presents a programme that celebrates Telemann's botanical passion. His published correspondence shows that he often wrote to his musician friends abroad, asking them to send him plant specimens. Among these friends were George Frideric Handel and Johann Gottlieb Graun, each of whom is represented here by a trio sonata, and there is also music by Telemann himself: one of his difficult 'Paris Quartets', a raucous sonata in G minor and a haunting fantasia for solo recorder. In a letter to a friend, Telemann spoke of his passion for hyacinths, tulips, ranunculi 'and especially for anemones'. The composer of four instrumental collections containing floral musical miniatures, James Oswald had to be part of this programme, and so we are treated to 'The Hyacinth', 'The Anemone' and 'The Tulip' from his 'Airs for the Spring'.

TRACKLIST

1. Ensemble Hesperi - Airs for the Spring: The Anemone: I. Air
2. Ensemble Hesperi - Airs for the Spring: The Anemone: II. Andante
3. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, HWV 386b: I. Andante
4. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, HWV 386b: II. Allegro ma non troppo
5. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, HWV 386b: III. Largo
6. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, HWV 386b: IV. Allegro
7. Ensemble Hesperi - Fantasia No. 9 in E Major, TWV 40:10: I. Affettuoso
8. Ensemble Hesperi - Fantasia No. 9 in E Major, TWV 40:10: II. Allegro
9. Ensemble Hesperi - Fantasia No. 9 in E Major, TWV 40:10: III. Grave
10. Ensemble Hesperi - Fantasia No. 9 in E Major, TWV 40:10: IV. Vivace
11. Ensemble Hesperi - Sonata I in A Major, TWV 43:A1: I. Soave
12. Ensemble Hesperi - Sonata I in A Major, TWV 43:A1: II. Allegro
13. Ensemble Hesperi - Sonata I in A Major, TWV 43:A1: III. Andante
14. Ensemble Hesperi - Sonata I in A Major, TWV 43:A1: IV. Vivace
15. Ensemble Hesperi - Airs for the Spring: The Hyacinth: I. Cantabile
16. Ensemble Hesperi - Airs for the Spring: The Hyacinth: II. Allegro moderato
17. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in D Major, WV Cv:XV:99: I. Largo
18. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in D Major, WV Cv:XV:99: II. Allegro
19. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in D Major, WV Cv:XV:99: III. Andante
20. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in D Major, WV Cv:XV:99: IV. Vivace
21. Ensemble Hesperi - Airs for the Spring: The Tulip: I. March
22. Ensemble Hesperi - Airs for the Spring: The Tulip: II. Allegro moderato
23. Ensemble Hesperi - Airs for the Spring: The Tulip: III. Hornpipe
24. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in G Minor, TWV:g9: I. Soave ma non adagio
25. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in G Minor, TWV:g9: II. Vivace
26. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in G Minor, TWV:g9: III. Largo
27. Ensemble Hesperi - Trio Sonata in G Minor, TWV:g9: IV. Allegro



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