Artist: Capricornus Consort Basel Title: Gulliver's Travels Year Of Release: 2025 Label: Christophorus Genre: Classical Quality: flac lossless (tracks) 24bits - 96.0kHz Total Time: 01:06:53 Total Size: 1.32 gb

Tracklist

1. Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV 40:200: I. Affettuoso
2. Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV 40:200: II. Allegro
3. Sonata à 4 in A Major, TWV 40:200: III. Vivace
4. Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: I. Adagio
5. Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: II. Allegro
6. Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: III. Grave
7. Sonata à 5 in E Minor, TWV 44:5: IV. Allegro
8. Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: I. Grave
9. Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: II. Allegro
10. Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: III. Adagio
11. Concerto for 4 Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201: IV. Vivace
12. Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1: I. Allegro
13. Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1: II. Largo
14. Trietto No. 3 in D Minor, TWV 42:d1: III. Allegro
15. Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: I. Affettuoso
16. Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: II. Allegro
17. Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: III. Adagio
18. Sonata à 5 in F Major, TWV 44:11: IV. Presto
19. Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: I. Grave
20. Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: II. Allegro
21. Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: III. Adagio
22. Sonata à 5 in G Minor, TWV 44:33: IV. Vivace
23. Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": I. Intrada
24. Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": II. Lilliputsche Chaconne
25. Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": III. Brobdingnagische Gigue
26. Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels": IV. Reverie der Laputier, nebst ihren Aufweckern
27. Gulliver's Travels": V. Loure der gesitteten Houyhnhnms. Furie der unartigen Yahoos
28. Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4: II. Vivace
29. Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4: III. Presto - Grave
30. Sonate corellisante No. 5 in G Minor, TWV 42:g4: IV. Vivace

The new CD by the Capricornus Consort Basel is dedicated to Georg Philipp Telemann - exclusively works for strings in a wide variety of scorings, sometimes with and sometimes without basso continuo. Each of them documents - across various creative periods - Telemann's fascinating wealth of musical ideas, his adept sense of form and style, his creative approach to tradition and his constant interest in artistic innovation.

Added to this is a large pinch of humour, which culminates in the eponymous 'Gulliver's Suite':

Telemann sets the adventures of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver on his travels to music in absurd time signatures: The dwarves appear in 3/32nd time with tiny note values up to 128th, the giants can only perform the (otherwise fast) gigue very sedately due to huge note values or Telemann refers to the mathematical interest of the islanders by representing the time signature as a formula.

The Capricornus Consort Basel, highly praised for its subtle and sensitive interpretations and decorated with prizes, allows Telemann's wealth of ideas to shine in a colourful way, which will hopefully convince even the last person who still thinks Telemann is a second-rate prolific writer of the opposite!