Gulliver's Travels Capricornus Consort Basel
Album info
Album-Release:
2025
HRA-Release:
21.03.2025
Label: Christophorus
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Artist: Capricornus Consort Basel
Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Album including Album cover
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767): Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV 40:200:
- 1 Telemann: Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV 40:200: I. Affettuoso 01:36
- 2 Telemann: Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV 40:200: II. Allegro 03:00
- 3 Telemann: Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV 40:200: III. Vivace 02:43
- Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5:
- 4 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: I. Adagio 03:00
- 5 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: II. Allegro 02:09
- 6 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: III. Grave 02:08
- 7 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: IV. Allegro 01:51
- Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201:
- 8 Telemann: Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: I. Grave 02:28
- 9 Telemann: Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: II. Allegro 01:40
- 10 Telemann: Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: III. Adagio 01:00
- 11 Telemann: Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: IV. Vivace 01:44
- Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1:
- 12 Telemann: Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1: I. Allegro 02:20
- 13 Telemann: Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1: II. Largo 03:47
- 14 Telemann: Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1: III. Allegro 03:15
- Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11:
- 15 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: I. Affettuoso 02:57
- 16 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: II. Allegro 02:03
- 17 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: III. Adagio 02:12
- 18 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: IV. Presto 01:30
- Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33:
- 19 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: I. Grave 02:14
- 20 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: II. Allegro 02:16
- 21 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: III. Adagio 02:25
- 22 Telemann: Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: IV. Vivace 01:34
- Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels":
- 23 Telemann: Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": I. Intrada 01:45
- 24 Telemann: Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": II. Lilliputsche Chaconne 00:51
- 25 Telemann: Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": III. Brobdingnagische Gigue 02:12
- 26 Telemann: Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": IV. Reverie der Laputier, nebst ihren Aufweckern 02:17
- 27 Telemann: Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": V. Loure der gesitteten Houyhnhnms. Furie der unartigen Yahoos 01:07
- Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4:
- 28 Telemann: Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4: I. Grave 03:06
- 29 Telemann: Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4: II. Vivace 02:00
- 30 Telemann: Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4: III. Presto - Grave 01:56
- 31 Telemann: Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4: IV. Vivace 01:31
Info for Gulliver's Travels
The highly acclaimed and award-winning Capricornus Consort Basel, renowned for its subtle and sensitive interpretations, brilliantly showcases Telemann's wealth of ideas. The program features exclusively works for strings in a wide variety of ensembles, sometimes with and sometimes without continuo. Spanning various periods of his career, the program documents Telemann's inexhaustible wellspring of musical inspiration, his sophisticated sense of form and style, his creative engagement with tradition, his constant interest in artistic innovation, and his sense of humor.
“In his ‘Gulliver Suite’ for two violins without bass, Telemann satirizes the compositional and notational conventions of his time. This humorous gem contrasts with the touching seriousness of the three quintets for strings and basso continuo presented here. Two quartets and two trios are interspersed. The Capricornus Consort Basel performs everything with an exceptionally beautiful tone, deep emotionality, and spirited, yet not excessive, joy in playing. An extraordinarily convincing plea for the diversity and originality of Telemann’s chamber music!” (German Record Critics’ Award / Best List 03/2025)
Capricornus Consort Basel
Péter Barczi, conductor, violin
Capricornus Consort Basel
Since its founding in 2006, the Capricornus Consort Basel has primarily dedicated itself to rare works of the Baroque and High Baroque periods that require soloists.
The principal violinist, founder, and artistic director, Peter Barczi, has gathered around him a group of musicians whose artistic connections often date back to friendships forged during their studies at the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the university for the research and dissemination of historical music.
The members of the Capricornus Consort Basel find their musical cohesion not least in their ongoing agreement regarding the demands placed on performers of early music. Thus, the path to the most exquisite harmony seems to lead, to a particular degree, through the shared expressive will of these independent musical personalities.
The Capricornus Consort Basel has been invited to perform at renowned festivals and has garnered particular attention from the international music press with its CD recordings.
Péter Barczi
Born in 1973 in Hungary, after graduating with a degree in modern violin, he studied Baroque violin in Budapest, Dresden, Trossingen, and Basel with Piroska Vitárius, Simon Standage, John Holloway, Anton Steck, and Chiara Banchini. He currently lives near Basel, Switzerland. For the past ten years, he has been a regular guest musician with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. He is also concertmaster of the Camerata Basel and a member of the Baroque orchestra La Cetra. He is the second violinist of the Almaviva String Quartet. In 2006, he founded his own baroque ensemble, the Capricornus Consort Basel, with which he has already recorded five CDs under the Christophorus label. The CD released in January 2014, featuring world premiere recordings of Christoph Graupner's soprano solo cantatas with soprano Miriam Feuersinger, received the Echo Klassik award in 2014 and was included in the German Record Critics' Award's list of best recordings.
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