Telemann, Georg Philipp: Trio Sonatas.Telemann, Georg Philipp Telemann, Georg Philipp (gā`ôrk fē`lĭp tĕl`əmän), 1681–1767, German composer. From 1721 until his death he was director of music for the five major churches in Hamburg. : Trio Sonatas (violin and cello chamber music, with bassoon bassoon (băs  n`), double-reed woodwind instrument that plays in the bass and tenor registers. Its 8-ft (2.4-m) conical tube is bent double, the instrument thus being about 4 ft (1. , recorder, organ, and harpsichord harpsichord, stringed musical instrument played from a keyboard. Its strings, two or more to a note, are plucked by quills or jacks. The harpsichord originated in the 14th cent. and by the 16th cent. Venice was the center of its manufacture. ). Parnassi Musici,
performing on "period" instruments. Recorded in 2002, at SWR SWR Standing Wave Ratio (radio term)SWR Südwestrundfunk (Southern German Radio Station) SWR Shoreham Wading River SWR Short-Wave Radio SWR Software Requirements Studio Karlsruhe, Germany. Engineer: Roland Winger. 68+ minutes. CPO (Chief Privacy Officer) An individual who manages the privacy issues within an organization. Arising out of the privacy regulations in finance and health care in the late 1990s, the CPO position eventually crossed over to all industries. 999 934. Telemann is said to have transformed traditional trio sonatas as composed and performed in Germany from esoteric music for virtuoso players into a considerably more popular form. I am not sure what "popular" means, but what we have here is music of the highest order, performed by a group of accomplished musicians. Admittedly, the sound of period instruments In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform European classical music using restored or replica versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments". is not always to everyone's taste (including, at times, mine), but here they work well with the material and the result is on the musical mark. The musical content in this disc's presentation is itself unusual, in that it contains a complete sonata cycle Sonata cycle has two uses in western classical music.
I auditioned this material first on my main system and was struck by the stereo spread and soundstaging, not to mention the detail and depth. This is a superior sounding recording in every way. When I tried the Yamaha RX-Z1's "Classical/Opera" mode (with the center level backed off 3 dB to minimize center collapse), I was moved into a larger space, with the center better stabilized for off-axis listening. Dolby Pro Logic See Dolby Surround. II (music) was better yet, preserving the small-hall sense of space, while at the same time stabilizing the center area. I also tried the material out on my smaller system (with Dunlavy Cantatas doing the main-channel work), in my yet to be enlarged smaller listening room. The result was quite good, with even better close-up detail and intimacy than what I got with the larger system. As noted previously, the Cantatas have to be positioned only six feet apart in the current room (they will be nine feet apart after the room is enlarged in a couple of months), so no center-channel fill was required to get a stabilized soundstage. The sweet-spot imaging with those speakers showed up just how well engineered this recording is. A must of all fans of Telemann and Baroque music in general. |
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