This recording presents Telemann’s sonatas for recorder, violin and basso continuo played by violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky, cellist Balázs Máté and harpsichord Alexandra Koreneva and the inimitable Erik Bosgraaf on recorder.

The recording includes all five surviving trio sonatas for recorder, violin and basso continuo by Georg Philipp Telemann. As an encore, there is a charming duet for recorder and violin Telemann published in 1728-29 in his music periodical Der getreue Music-Meister. There is also a duet for these two instruments hidden in the Trio Sonata in A minor (TWV 42:a1) which has no basso continuo in the trio section of the final menuet.

Telemann became seriously interested in composing trios during the period between 1708 and 1712, while he was working as the court kapellmeister in Bach’s native Eisenach. It was a genre that must have been close to his heart. “Specifically, people tried to persuade me that trios were my strongest point", he wrote in his autobiography as early as 1718 and he repeated remarks to that effect in 1740. Would he have recorded this laudatory characterisation if he hadn’t secretly agreed?

ERIK BOSGRAAF recorder
DMITRY SINKOVSKY violin
BALÁZS MÁTÉ cello
ALEXANDRA KORENEVA harpsichord

0301006BC • Released 2017