Telemann: Ouverture-suite & Concerti pour Darmstadt Les Ambassadeurs & Alexis Kossenko

• Ouverture pour 2 cors, 2 hautbois, basson et cordes en Fa majeur TWV 55:F3:
• 1 I. Ouverture 07:34
• 2 II. Rondeau 02:06
• 3 III. Sarabande 02:48
• 4 IV. Menuet - Trio 02:48
• 5 V. La Badinerie 01:15
• 6 VI. Gigue 01:42
• 7 VII. Rejouissance - Trio 03:11
• 8 VIII. Fanfare 02:42
• Concerto pour violon en la mineur TWV 51:A1:
• 9 I. Adagio 03:09
• 10 II. Allegro 02:29
• 11 III. Presto 01:38
• Concerto pour flûte traversière en Ré majeur TWV 51:D1:
• 12 I. Andante 04:13
• 13 II. Vivace 04:01
• 14 III. Largo 04:06
• 15 IV. Allegro 03:55
• Concerto pour flûte traversière et violon en mi mineur TWV 52:e3:
• 16 I. Allegro 02:42
• 17 II. Adagio 02:12
• 18 III. Presto - Adagio - Allegro 01:03
• 19 IV. Adagio 00:44
• 20 V. Allegro 02:43
• Concerto pour flûte traversière en Ré majeur TWV 51:D2
• 21 I. Moderato 02:46
• 22 II. Allegro 03:15
• 23 III. Largo 03:46
• 24 IV. Vivace 03:02
• Total Runtime 01:09:50

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Alexis Kossenko returns to centre stage with a project focusing on works by the spectacularly prolific Georg Philipp Telemann.From them, Alexis Kossenko has chosen two concertos with orchestra: one for flute, the other for flute and violin, preceded by an overture.This program, perfectly composed to demonstrate the Baroque conductor’s maturing, rising talent, is also a showcase for his impressive qualities as flautist.It is also the occasion to again find Zefira Valova as Konzertmeister and soloist in one of the concertos.

Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko, flute and conductor

Les Ambassadeurs & Alexis Kossenko
realize a dream of a European orchestra reconciling the performance on period instruments with a wide repertoire hitherto fragmented by specialization. At once sincere messengers, passionate performers and inspired creators, their mission is to share with as wide a public as possible the infinite range of emotions conveyed by the experience of music.

Tracing their path away from dogmas, fashions and schools, Les Ambassadeurs pursue an ideal of eloquence – where the grammar of period instruments, the art of rhetoric and musical instinct do not exclude each other.

Among their various projects, which include Bach, Rameau, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Stravinsky or Debussy, Les Ambassadeurs place a particular importance on the rediscovery of the Dresden Hofkapelle in the time of Bach, then described as “the most beautiful orchestra in the world” for its exemplary discipline, virtuosity of its musicians, its shimmering colors which made it the first “modern” orchestra. It was also an extraordinary initiative which brought together musicians from throughout Europe. It is indeed in Dresden that Italian, French and German styles unite and give birth to the “Goûts Réunis” treasured by Telemann.

After acclaimed concerts in Brussels (Bozar – Palais des Beaux-Arts) and Paris (Auditorium du Louvre), Les Ambassadeurs & Alexis Kossenko entered a rich concert season that took them to Germany (Potsdam/Sanssouci Festspiele), Austria (Trigonale Festival), Slovenia (Brezice Festival), Poland (Festivals in Poznan, Paradyz and Warsaw), Latvia (Riga Bach Festival), Bulgaria (Sofia Baroque Arts Festival) – where they performed large scale works such as secular and religious works from Dresden, Rameau’s Anacréon, Haendel’s oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.

In 2012 Les Ambassadeurs will perform the opening concert of Bruges Festival (Mozart symphonies and concert arias with soprano Sabine Devieilhe) ; other plans include concerts in USA, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, and discs of works by Vivaldi (Concerti per l’orchestra di Dresda) and Mozart (arias for Aloysia Weber & Linz symphony) in collaboration with Alpha records.

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