Telemann: The Recorder Sonatas Erik Bosgraaf & Francesco Corti

• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):
• 1 I. Andante 02:13
• 2 II. Allegro 01:44
• 3 III. Andante 02:12
• 4 IV. Presto 01:43
• 5 I. Largo 01:35
• 6 II. Allegro 01:21
• 7 III. Dolce 01:58
• 8 IV. Vivace 01:46
• 9 I. Triste 02:29
• 10 II. Allegro 04:10
• 11 III. Andante 01:22
• 12 IV. Vivace 02:07
• 13 I. Cantabile 01:19
• 14 II. Allegro 01:58
• 15 III. Grave 01:32
• 16 IV. Vivace 02:17
• 17 I. Largo 01:14
• 18 II. Allegro 02:01
• 19 III. Largo 01:06
• 20 IV. Vivace 01:53
• 21 I. Vivace 02:13
• 22 II. Largo 02:00
• 23 III. Allegro 01:41
• 24 I. Affettuoso 01:35
• 25 II. Presto 03:14
• 26 III. Grave 00:55
• 27 IV. Allegro 02:58
• 28 I. Adagio 02:18
• 29 II. Allegro 01:32
• 30 III. Adagio 01:19
• 31 IV. Gigue 01:13
• 32 I. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro 02:23
• 33 II. Larghetto 01:33
• 34 III. Vivace 03:01
• Total Runtime 01:05:55

Info for Telemann: The Recorder Sonatas

In preparation of the Telemann year 2017 (250th anniversary) Erik Bosgraaf and Francesco Corti present a new recording of the complete recorder sonatas!

Telemann himself was a professional recorder player. These sonatas contain some of his most personal music, his usual brilliance, wit and virtuosity alternate with passages of deep emotion and melancholy.

Erik Bosgraaf is one of the most remarkable recorder players of today.

Equally at home in early as well as contemporary music he extends the limits of his instrument, achieving an extreme range of expression and unheard‐of effects.

Erik Bosgraaf, recorder
Francesco Corti, harpsichord

Erik Bosgraaf
Hailed as one of the most gifted and versatile recorder players of the new generation, Erik Bosgraaf has a colourful past in a rock band and as an oboe player. He believes that good music is irrespective of style and feels equally at home in early and contemporary music as well as commissioning new works including several concertos incorporating new media.

In 2007 Frans Brüggen invited him to perform Bach's Actus Tragicus at the Concertgebouw. Current engagements include solo performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden and the Dutch Radio Chamber Philharmonic/Thierry Fischer. His début recording, a 3-CD box with music by Dutch composer Jacob van Eyck, was number one in the Dutch classical music charts in 2007 and his CD/DVD 'Big Eye', including contemporary music for film, was hailed as 'wacky, irreverent and thought-provoking' (Gramophone). He has also made CDs of Telemann, Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

In 2006 he co-founded Ensemble Cordevento specializing in the music of the 17th and 18th century. He was selected as Rising Star by the ECHO to tour all major European concerthalls in season 2011-12. Born in The Netherlands in 1980, Erik Bosgraaf is a former student of Walter van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts (Amsterdam). He also holds an MA in musicology from Utrecht University and received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2009. In 2011 he received the highest Dutch state prize, the Dutch Music Award.

Francesco Corti
was born in Arezzo, Italy, in a musical family in 1984. He studied organ and composition for organ with Wijnand van de Pol in Perugia, then harpsichord at the in Geneva with Alfonso Fedi and in Amsterdam with Bob van Asperen.

He was awarded in international competitions for harpsichord, organ and chamber music. In 2006 he obtained the first prize of harpsichord at the XV International "Johann Sebastian Bach" Competition in Leipzig. In 2007 he was awarded the second prize at the Bruges Harpsichord Competition.

As a soloist, he has appeared in recitals and concerts all over Europe, in the USA, Mexico, Island, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and in New Zealand. He has been invited by festivals such as the Salzburger Festpiele, the BachFest Leipzig, the MusikFest Bremen, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Festival Radio France Montpellier, and has performed in halls such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Bozar in Bruxelles, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Mozarteum and Haus für Mozart in Salzburg and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The Mozartwoche Festival in Salzburg invites him every year to perform on the original Walter fortepiano once owned by Mozart.

In 2007 he was called by M. Minkowski to join Les Musicien du Louvre, where he plays continuo and solo harpsichord, fortepiano and organ. With this ensemble he has performed concertos my Bach, Händel, Haydn and Mozart.

As a soloist, he has been accompanied in concertos by the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Combattimento Consort, the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra and the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova.

He also performs with other famous early music groups such as Le Concert des Nations (J. Savall), Ensemble Zefiro (A. Bernardini), Harmonie Universelle (F. Deuter), Ensemble Elyma (G. Garrido), Les Talens Lyriques (C. Rousset), La Scintilla (A. Pesch) and Musica ad Rhenum (J. Wenz). As continuo player he ha salso performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Mozarteum Orchestra and the Wiener Philharmoniker.

He was invited as soloist and conductor by the Holland Baroque Society for two European tours of concerts with the six Brandenburg concertos by J. S. Bach. He has also conducted Les Musiciens du Louvre in a Bach Cantatas program.

He has recorded for Sony-DHM, Deutche Grammophon, Naïve, Accent, Arcana, Aparte, Brilliant Classics, Genuin and Berlin Classics. His solo recording include a CD of Louis Couperin Suites and the Partitas by J. S. Bach.

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