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Fit For A King’s Table
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists; Rachel Podger violin
Date
Thu 11 Feb 2016, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists
    • Rachel Podgerviolin

    Programme

    • Georg Phillipp Telemann
      1681-1767
        • Overture in D TWV55:D1
        • Quartet in D minor Tafelmusik I No. 2 TWV43:d1
        • Concerto 3 violins in F major Tafelmusik II No. 3 TWV53:F1

    Interval

    • Georg Phillipp Telemann
      1681-1767
        • Trio Sonata in E minor Tafelmusik II No. 4 TWV42:e2
        • Violin Sonata in A major TWV41:A4
        • Conclusion in D major Tafelmusik II No. 6 TWV50:9

    Encore

    Overview

    Poets of the ancient world wrote of great feastsaccompanied by music, connecting with a traditionrooted in distant prehistory.

    Telemann’s Tafelmusikbelongs to a genre first named in the 1500s. TheGerman composer published three sets of ‘tablemusic’ in 1733, the second of which opens with abold overture and suite for trumpet, oboe and stringsand includes a quartet, concerto, trio sonata andsolo sonata.

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