Today, Telemann languishes in the shadow of his greatest contemporaries, Bach and Handel, though he did not rank beneath them during his lifetime. We are forever reminded of his absurd fertility — he ...

Lucie Skeaping looks at the operas of Telemann. It's said he composed more than 50 works for the stage, although only 35 of them appear in his catalogue. Most of them were premiered in either Leipzig ...

The 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death has not been widely marked, but this scintillating disc should reassert his claim to be one of the most inventive composers of the 18th century. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are the most celebrated 18th-century concertos featuring unorthodox combinations of solo instruments. But they have nothing on the lines of some of the seven, mostly even ...