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Telemann - Fugues, Overtures, Preludes & Suites - R. Loreggian, harpsichord & organ CD5 (NMR) 

As I set out to write this review, I pawed through my not small Telemann collection looking for comparison discs, and found not a one. This is not too surprising, as Telemann’s solo keyboard music has not received the attention of musicians and record companies in the way much of his other work has. It appears that this collection does not contain all of Telemann’s keyboard works—I note, for example, a Harmonia Mundi disc on which harpsichordist John Butt plays 20 fantasias from TWV 33. For Centaur, Joseph Payne started a series of Telemann’s “complete” works for keyboard with a two-disc set of all the TWV 33 fantasias, but that was issued in 1996 and I have not seen any follow-ups to that release. Thus, Telemann’s admirers should welcome this five-CD set from Brilliant Classics, even if it is not comprehensive. (Presumably there is more to come.) 

dank aan originele poster Charles Drew!