Jean-Francois Madeuf, Pierre-Yves Madeuf, La Petite Bande & Sigiswald Kuijken - Telemann: Trumpet & Horn Concertos (2016)

Jean-François Madeuf and Pierre-Yves Madeuf are two of the leading exponents of the historically informed performance practice as applied to wind instruments. On natural horn or natural trumpet they can be found in many of Europe’s main early music ensembles and orchestras. On this new Accent CD, they team up with Sigiswald Kuijken’s exquisite La Petite Bande to perform a set of Georg Philipp Telemann concertos as they have never been heard before on record: using natural trumpets and horns, and bringing the pieces back to their original chamber music context. Despite the identical key of D major, the works recorded here bear substantial differences between them, and Telemann’s highly varied instrumental scoring documents his constant search for innovation.