Ouverture in D major, TWV 55:D15 ~ Réjouissance by G.P. Telemann

Telemann wrote more than twenty operas each for Leipzig and for Hamburg as well as a staggering quantity of orchestral, chamber and instrumental music before his long working life was finally curtailed by a crippling eye disease. Some orchestral suites he wrote for the Darmstadt court, and known as the Darmstadt Ouvertures (even though each so-called 'Overture' is in several short movements beginning with an overture!), are among the most attractive works in his unbelievably large output.
Here is an example of one.

Cologne Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Helmut Müller-Brühl

Category:

Music

Tags:

• orchestral
• suite
• lully
• rameau
• couperin
• dance
• bach
• handel
• opera
• violin
• concerto
• chamber
• baroque
• classical
• mozart
• beethoven
• marcello
• scarlatti
• brandenburg
• four
• seasons
• oratorio
• HWV
• BWV
• RV
• overture
• allemande
• sarabande
• gigue
• paris
• quartets
• water
• music

[anzdf]

Una overtura maravillosa y magnifica interpretacion, gracias.

¿La pintura es de Boucher??

[bubblykings]

This is actually Fragonard. I love Boucher too though. :)

[MontanaBarNone]

Pretty impressive Kitty! I'm a big fan of Telemann......do you have more? Thank you.........

[bubblykings]

I probably have some more Telemann.....I'll find more of him eventually from my shelves of CDs. ;))))))

[Aqualoshadka]

awesome video!

[bubblykings]

lol ;) You really like to say "awesome video!" don't you?

[telemannNnyc]

Great video, but Telemann never lost his eyesight. You have this confused with either Handel, Bach, and Graupner-- who all lost their vision.

[anisuthideyakoindu]

At least as good as the Brandenburger!

[violatione]

I don't think that anyone can deny the greatness of Bach's best work. However if you examine the sum total of Bach's work, you'd have to admit that Telemann was the greater composer. Bach wrote a few amazing works but most of his work is at a much lower level. Telemann and Handel were pretty consistant in the level of their compositions. Thus I consider them better composers.

[FountainHouseVases]

Bach trembles in the wake of this overture.

[FountainHouseVases]

The question isn't whether Telemann is more impressive than Bach. The question is whether he is more pleasurable. I challenge anyone to name a piece of music by Bach that is as DELICIOUS as this piece by Telemann. This overture is great wine. Bach never ascends to this degree of delicious delight. He is too bogged down by theory and technique. This Telemann overture is music unleashed -- unbridled in a way Bach can never be. Bach's music is too weighty, too fettered.

[indigoblue555]

Telemann did evidently like Haendel's Water Music ......

[quixoteNnyc]

Funny the comments here that seem woefully ignorant of how much Bach enjoyed Telemann's music and performed it in Leipzig.

[zzzzzsleepy00]

I agree with you, Telemann doesn't seem to impress me as much as Bach.

[WatkinsAle]

This music is so pleasant, but I didn't have been moved so much to Telemann's composing. I can't be impressed by his score somehow although never dislike...

May be his fame be made on absence of other great musicians in Germany at the time(even Bach was nameless still then).

On the other hand, we can listen model of Baroque music by his legacy surely...

[ShakespeareHamlet]

beautiful.