For centuries, Orpheus has fascinated composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Philip Glass. But of those who have turned the mythological musician’s underworld-charming lyre tunes to opera, Georg ...

Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...

Georg Philipp Telemann was one of the most celebrated musicians of the 18th century. In Europe, his fame eclipsed that of his close contemporaries Handel and Bach and he left behind him a vast legacy ...

Lucie Skeaping explores the folk music Telemann encountered on his brief sojourn in Poland and some of the pieces he composed with those influences at the forefront of his mind. Show more For just ...

Can an obscure opera from 1725 with a cast of just two, a bare-bones plot bordering on the absurd and a production using early instruments and historic performance techniques reach a contemporary ...

Holland Baroque has no conductor but elects a leader, in this case the flautist Alexis Kossenko, for each project. Today: Telemann. The result is almost pure delight. Kossenko’s plaintive legato ...

Experience the latest instalment in Australian baroque violinist and early music specialist Elizabeth Wallfisch’s epic series of recordings celebrating the music of Georg Philipp Telemann. The eighth ...

On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation some unlikely musical works are being dusted off. Telemann wrote his so-called “Reformation” Oratorio, Holder Friede, heil’ger Glaube, in 1755 to mark 200 ...

The natural world is a rich source of inspiration for creative minds … including composers! Georg Philipp Telemann composed a piece nicknamed the CRICKET SYMPHONY that features a cacophony of cricket ...

Pinchgut Opera performs Bach's glorious Easter Oratorio featuring young soloists Alexandra Oomens and Anna Dowsley, followed by the rarely-heard Thunder Ode of Telemann. In 1755 Lisbon was virtually ...

The German port city of Hamburg was Georg Philipp Telemann's adopted hometown, so he knew about the importance of its sea-faring lifestyle. In 1723 he wrote a special suite called "Hamburg Ebb and ...