Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was sometimes called the French Telemann — and with good reason. Like his namesake, Boismortier had a facility for composition, producing a seemingly unending stream of music with ease. And like Telemann, it wasn’t just hackwork. Boismortier knew what the public wanted — and wrote accordingly. But he did so without […]
Neumeyer Consort
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Neumeyer Consort New Take on Telemann
The Neumeyer Consort perform some of Telemann’s most colorful ouverture-suites — and sound like they had a lot of fun in the process. Percussion is heard extensively in the Ouverture-Suite “La Bizarre” — as it is in all the suites. It’s not something one normally hears in baroque music, and I found it quite refreshing. […]