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SACDハイブリッド盤。18世紀のヨーロッパでは多くの富裕層が植物学に情熱を注ぎ、それは園芸の楽しみをはるかに超えたものでした。テレマンもその一人。友人や文通相手にしばしば標本を送ってくれるよう頼み、自身のコレクションを増やしていきました。その友人にはヘンデルもいます。テレマンは植物(花)と音楽の色彩で満たされていました。

ロンドンを拠点に活動するピリオド楽器の「アンサンブル・ヘスペリ」がテレマンの植物への情熱を讃えるプログラムをお届けします。テレマンは友人に宛てた手紙の中で、ヒヤシンス、チューリップ、そしてアネモネへの情熱を語っています。当アルバムではテレマンと植物にまつわる作品を演奏。オズワルドの「アネモネ」「ヒヤシンス」「チューリップ」も収録しております。
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One may feel some surprise here that this BIS release appeared in December at the end of 2024, for it would make an ideal gift item for a gardener. Perhaps the idea was to get it on store shelves around the time of seed ordering. The album features more or less garden-related pieces, including lovely selections from the Airs for the Seasons, a large collection of 96 pieces, all with the names of flowers and some of them lightly folk-flavored, by the Scottish composer James Oswald (1710-1769). These are unfailingly melodic but are rarely played, perhaps due to the problem of avoiding monotony in presenting a sequence of miniatures, however individually interesting. The novel solution by the historically oriented Ensemble Hesperi, themselves of Scottish origin, is to intersperse the Oswald pieces among works by Telemann, Handel, and Johann Gottlieb Graun (brother to Carl Heinrich Graun). There is nothing specifically flower or garden related about these pieces in themselves, but the connection is that Telemann, in addition to his prodigiously large compositional output, found time to maintain a good-sized garden in Hamburg and even to write down notes about its operation. From these, one can learn what he grew and also that he was in the habit of asking his correspondents, including Handel and Graun, to send him plant cuttings. This may seem a slender reed on which to hang a program, but actually, the music fits together well. Ensemble Hesperi cultivates (so to speak) a laid-back style that contrasts with the glittering approach to Baroque chamber music so common these days and the whole program feels like a natural, lightly thematic evening of a sort one might have heard in London at the time. So one should get a copy for the gardener in ones life! ~ James Manheim