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 Concerto G-Dur

Composer:Telemann (1681-1767)   
Editor:   Quartet:Descant/Descant/Treble/Treble
Publisher:Otto Heinrich Noetzel Verlag  Publication:Noetzel N 3319

It was Karola Heißenbüttel of the Klingende Runde für jung und alt who introduced me to this work sometime in 1978/9. I remember working through it but have never played it with an ensemble. The somewhat unusual quartet combination of two descants and two trebles at first sight appears a little daunting but the descants range is below G thus limiting possibilities of "squeakiness". It has five movements namely: Largo e staccato, Allegro, Adagio and Vivace. The Vivace is especially lively, gladdening the hearts of baroque lovers.