Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - Antonio Vivaldi - Johann Friedrich Fasch - Johann Georg Pisendel - Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

The Godfather

La Serenissima

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212060223

Catalog number: SIGCD 602
Releasedate: 15-11-19

Celebrating the music of 18th century composers, and how they composed music, which has bcome so world-renowned, despite travel being difficult in the 18th century.

The musical world of eighteenth-century Europe was a small one. Despite the problems presented by contemporary standards of transport, it was quite normal for composers in one part of Europe to be entirely au fait with what was happening elsewhere. This is borne out by the closeness of three
German composers: Telemann, godfather to C.P.E. Bach; Pisendel; and J.S. Bach, who admired both his compatriots and composed some astoundingly difficult music for the violinist Pisendel.

This programme celebrates their music as well as the music of those who contributed to their musical heritage. Included alongside the German triumvirate are works by Vivaldi who physically helped with the composition of Pisendel’s A minor concerto movement, Fasch who was a great friend of Pisendel and Telemann, and Brescianello, an Italian who helped the dissemination of Italian instrumental music throughout the German-speaking lands and whose concertos were played in Dresden by Pisendel.