Georg Philipp Telemann’s Complete Original Recorder Sonatas for recorder contains the four well-known sonatas from Der getreue Music-Meister, the 2 from Essercizii Musici, the F minor from Brussels and 2 others.
Telemann’s recorder sonatas are core repertoire for recorder players, deservedly so, because of the composer’s admirable inventiveness and refusal to rely on formulas. Eight of them come from three printed collections engraved and published by Telemann himself, while the last sonata is found only in a manuscript in Brussels.
(Bernard Thomas)
