Dahlin L'Orfeo Barockorchester Gaigg - Suites & Arias - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The work group formed by Telemann's overture suites is regarded as exemplary and even today offers a wealth of discoveries - and the three works presented here in album recording premieres certainly answer this description. It is difficult to determine the chronological order of Telemann's extant overture suites because the composer incorporated very different influences into them, not only from French music since the invention of the form by Jean-Baptiste Lully but also from the InchLullistsInch active in Germany such as Johann Sigismund Kusser, Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, and Johann Fischer. And for Telemann's pronounced tendency to mix existing formal, stylistic, and generic traditions, the overture suite formed an absolutely ideal foil. Here we can find diverse characters, formal combinations, and stylistic interconnections in great supply. The great imagination and spirit at work here are also shown in the plentiful stores of surprising ideas that shine like flashes of brainstorm lightning in various passages.

Karlsson Barock is possibly the most prominent string ensemble for Baroque music in Northern Europe. On this album, Two Orchestral Suites & Three Arias, the orchestra is expanded with three woodwind play-ers from another important Swedish ensemble The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble. The first piece on this album is the orchestral suite by Georg Philipp Telemann, Ouverture-Suite in C Major, TWV 55 C6. Telemann's Orchestral Suites - also known as 'Ouvertures' like Bach's - were viewed as the pinnacle of the composer's synthesis of Italian and French styles into something quintessentially German. As an interlude before Bach's orchestral suite, we hear three arias from two tremendously popular operas at the time Alcina by Georg Friedrich Händel and Farnaceby Antonio Vivaldi. To our great joy, the soprano part is performed by Helena Ek, a much-appreciated soloist for early music in Europe. Ms. Ek has an impressively extensive repertoire that spans from early music to con-temporary and she has teamed up with Göran Karlssonin several early music productions. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066, concludes this wonderful album. Bach's Four Orchestral Suites have helped challenge, alter and reshape what we understand about the composer. Mostly because we don't often associate Bach, the sober Lutheran organist, with exuberant and joyful dance music. But these are works of considerable maturity and sophistication that deserve their place alongside the great scores of Bach's last decades. From Footprint Records, we wish you an enjoyable listening.

Album Tracks 1. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Sonata 2. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Coro. Alles, Was Ihr Tut 3. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Sonata 4. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Aria. Dir, Dir Höchster 5. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Arioso. Habe Deine Lust 6. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Choral. Gott Will Ich Lassen 7. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Sonata 8. Alles, Was Ihr Tut, for Satb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 4 Coro Alles, Was Ihr Tut 9. Gott, Hilf Mir, for Sssatbb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 34 Sonata 10. Gott, Hilf Mir, for Sssatbb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 34 Aria. Gott, Hilf Mir 11. Gott, Hilf Mir, for Sssatbb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 34 Coro. Fürchte Dich Nicht 12. Gott, Hilf Mir, for Sssatbb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 34 Aria. Israel, Israel 13. Gott, Hilf Mir, for Sssatbb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 34 Coro. Wer Hofft in Gott 14. Gott, Hilf Mir, for Sssatbb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 34 Aria. Ach Ja, Mein Gott 15. Gott, Hilf Mir, for Sssatbb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, Violone & Continuo, Buxwv 34 Coro. Israel, Israel 16. Fürwahr, Er Trug Unsere Krankheit, Passion Cantata for Ssatb Voices, 2 Violins, 2 Violas Da Gamba, Violone or Basson & Continuo, Bux