Telemann: Concerto-Sonata in D Major for Trumpet, Strings and Harpsichord, III. Vivace (Bilgram/Noe)

Telemann: Concerto-Sonata in D Major for Trumpet, Strings and Harpsichord III. Vivace Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) Among the trumpet showpieces Maurice Andre championed, this is the one whose paper trail is thinnest, and the honesty of any note about it begins there. "Concerto-Sonata in D Major for Trumpet, Strings and Harpsichord" is not a heading from the Telemann-Werke-Verzeichnis but the packaging used on Andre's recording with Sir Charles Mackerras and the English Chamber Orchestra (harpsichord, Mauritz Sillem), first issued on a 1977 LP in the EMI/HMV family. The same three movements surface elsewhere under their scholarly designation: the "Sonata di concerto" in D major, TWV Anh. 41:D3, arranged by the French bassoonist, conductor and composer Fernand Oubradous (1903-1986). That catalogue number is the most important fact here. "Anh." stands for Anhang, the appendix the Telemann catalogue reserves for works of doubtful or spurious attribution, so Telemann's authorship is not securely established and should not be asserted. The piece is best described as attributed to Telemann, not as his. A note that promised a composition date or a dedicatee would be inventing them. No reliable date of origin exists for an Anhang work of uncertain provenance, and the "1977" often attached to the piece is the recording date, not the date of composition; no dedication or dedicatee is documented in any consulted source, and a doubtful-attribution arrangement is unlikely to carry one. Both are left open here rather than guessed, which is why this note is marked pending on those two points. The Oubradous attribution itself comes from recording metadata rather than from Oubradous's own biography, a further reason for caution about every link in the chain except the music itself. What the music gives, the score confirms. The key is D major, the festive, brass-friendly tonality that has anchored trumpet writing since the natural-trumpet era, and it is unambiguous across every source. The design is a three-movement, fast-slow-fast arch in concertante dress: I. Moderato e grazioso, II. Largo, III. Vivace. (The opening movement appears simply as "Moderato" on one Andre release and as "Moderato e grazioso" on the Mackerras issue, the same music under slightly different tempo wording.) The "grazioso" qualifier is telling. The first movement opens not with a blazing fanfare but with a poised, song-like subject over buoyant strings, pulling toward galant charm rather than Baroque grandeur. The Largo is the lyrical center, the trumpet sustaining a broad cantabile line over slow-moving accompaniment, a pocket of stillness between the quick outer panels. The Vivace answers with a bright, dancing finale of sparkling exchanges that drives back to a festive close in the trumpet's home key. Its historical place is therefore double. As a putative Telemann work it sits at the margin of the catalogue, a piece the scholarship cannot confidently hand to him. As a performing item it belongs squarely to the twentieth-century trumpet revival, given currency by Oubradous's arrangement and by Andre, who set it on an LP of Baroque trumpet concertos beside works by Vivaldi, Viviani, Torelli and Stoelzel. The finale completes a fast-slow-fast plan (I. Moderato e grazioso, II. Largo, III. Vivace), returning to the home key of D major after the central Largo. Hedwig Bilgram Hilde Noe Mauritz Sillem Maurice André English Chamber Orchestra Münchener Bach-Orchester Münchener Kammerorchester Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor Karl Richter, conductor Hans Stadlmair, conductor From the album: Viviani / Vivaldi / Telemann / Handel / Joseph & Michael Haydn: Trumpet Concertos Released: 1 March 1991 Source: FLAC · 670 kbps UPC 00028941987426 Other movements of this work: · I. Moderato e grazioso:    • Telemann: Concerto-Sonata for Trumpet, Str...   · II. Largo:    • Telemann: Concerto-Sonata in D Major for T...   Also on this album: · Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Continuo, I. (Andante) (Bilgram/Noe):    • Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Cont...   · Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Continuo, II. (Allegro) (Bilgram/Noe):    • Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Cont...   · Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Continuo, III. (Presto) (Bilgram/Noe):    • Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Cont...   · Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Continuo, IV. (Allegro) (Bilgram/Noe):    • Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Cont...   · Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Continuo, V. (Adagio) (Bilgram/Noe):    • Viviani: Sonata prima for Trumpet and Cont...   Performance notes on this recording, how Bilgram and Noe approach the album, the work, and this movement, are in the pinned comment. #Telemann #Bilgram #Mackerras #EnglishChamberOrchestra #ClassicalMusic