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The Other Water Music

Lucie Skeaping explores Telemann's orchestral suite Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth and assesses its status as a colourful rival to Handel's Water Music.

Virtually unknown a few decades ago, Georg Philipp Telemann's orchestral suite 'Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth' (Hamburg Ebb and Flow) is fast becoming a rival to Handel's 'Water Music'. Written in 1723 to celebrate the centenary of the Hamburg Admiralty it tackles watery subjects such as the sea deities Thetis, Neptune and Triton, sporting Naiads and even the city's drainage channels! Lucie Skeaping explores the work and its musical context.

Contains a complete performance of the suite by Ensemble Zefiro, directed by Alberto Bernardini.

58 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 Sep 2013 13:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Gigue: Ebbe und Flut (from Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth, TWV55:C3)

    Performer: Musica Antiqua Köln. Performer: Reinhard Goebel (conductor).
    • DG ARCHIV.
    • 413 788 2.
    • Track 9.

  • Johan Helmich Roman

    Drottningholmsmusiken (excerpts)

    Performer: Ensemble 1700 Lund. Performer: Göran Karlsson (conductor).
    • CPO.
    • 777 5892.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Burlesque de Don Quichotte, TWV55:G10 - Sanche Panche berné [Sancho Panza tossed in a blanket]

    Performer: Tafelmusik. Performer: Jeanne Lamon (director).
    • FLEUR DE LYS.
    • FL23138.
    • Track 14.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture Tragi-comique, TWV55:D22 - Le Podagre [The Gout-Sufferer]

    Performer: Collegium Musicum 90. Performer: Simon Standage (director).
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN 0661.
    • Track 22.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Völker-Ouvertüre, TWV55:B5 - Les muscovites [Muscovites]

    Performer: Collegium Musicum 90. Performer: Simon Standage (conductor).
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN 0593.
    • Track 23.

  • André Campra

    O Dieux! ô justes Dieux! (excerpt from Idoménée)

    Performer: Les Arts Florissants. Performer: William Christie (conductor).
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMC901396.98.
    • CD2 T1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring (2nd movt) from 'The Four Seasons' (excerpt)

    Performer: Gli Incogniti. Performer: Amandine Beyer (violin & director).
    • ZIG-ZAG TERRITOIRES.
    • ZZT080803.
    • Track 9.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Naufragando va per l'onde (excerpt from La Resurrezione)

    Performer: Carolyn Watkinson (contralto). Performer: Academy of Ancient Music. Performer: Christopher Hogwood (conductor).
    • DECCA.
    • 475 6731.
    • CD7 T11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    So schnell ein rauchsend Wasser schiesst (excerpt from Cantata 'Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig', BWV26)

    Performer: Christoph Prégardien (tenor). Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Performer: Ton Koopman (conductor).
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.
    • CC72214.
    • CD2 T2.

  • Michelangelo Falvetti

    Il diluvio universale (excerpt)

    Performer: Namur Chamber Choir. Performer: Cappella Mediterranea. Performer: Leonardo García Alarcón (director).
    • AMBRONAY.
    • AMY026.
    • Track 21.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth, TWV55:C3

    Performer: Ensemble Zefiro. Performer: Alfredo Bernardini (oboe & director).
    • AMBROISIE.
    • AMB 9946.
    • T11-20.

Broadcast

  • Sat 7 Sep 2013 13:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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