Georg Philipp Telemann was one of history’s most prolific composers. He wrote some 3,000 works in virtually every existing genre, and at his death, in 1767, he was widely considered the leading ...

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 ...

When I looked through all the “Best Classical Recordings of 2017” lists for my “Meta List: The Best-Of-Best-Of The Year In Classical Music”, there were plenty predictable choices I came along, some ...

To mark its 25th anniversary period-instrument ensemble Florilegium dips its toe again into the seemingly bottomless ocean of music produced by Telemann, most prolific of composers. Telemann only ...

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 ...

This was never going to be a straight-up rendition of Georg Philipp Telemann’s baroque fantasias, not when the performer in question is Aisha Orazbayeva. The London-based Kazakh violinist specialises ...

How a rediscovered Telemann cantata led to a Grammy nomination — with a Rochester connection Posted: January 29, 2026 | Last updated: January 29, 2026 Rochester-based conductor and early music scholar ...

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 ...

The most extended and festive work is Wertes Zion, sei getrost, which sees the composer deploy the sort of lavish resources that often find him at his best: three trumpets, two oboes, timpani and ...

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 ...

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 ...