Naples. “Black Telemann”, in homage to the eighteenth-century German composer, is the title of the concert by the Baroque Ensemble of Naples with which, on Thursday evening at the Sannazaro Theatre, the musical season of the Scarlatti Association chaired by Oreste de Divitiis ended
. An evening promoted by the historic Neapolitan concert organization in collaboration with the REACO network (which unites various Italian concert institutions), to contribute to the knowledge of Georg Philipp Telemann, a great German author, of absolute importance in the history of music although less frequented than his contemporaries and compatriots Bach and Hendel. Telemann’s “Ouverture, Suite in E minor” from the “Musique de Table”, the “Concerto in D major” and the “Concerto in E minor” were performed in Naples. A selection that has favored the flute as the protagonist instrument, both recorder and transverse, here in the masterful performance of the soloists Laura Pontecorvo and Tommaso Rossi.
Much appreciated by the large audience present was the precise and inspired performance of the musicians making up the Baroque Ensemble: Rossella Croce and Marco Piantoni (violins), Vezio Jorio (viola), Manuela Albano (cello), Giorgio Sanvito (double bass) and Patrizia Varone (harpsichord). The intense orchestration work which united and returned different timbral combinations and instrumental genres was rewarded by the audience’s convinced applause, precisely in compliance with the “mixed style” – a combination of styles between Italian, French and German – which is the recognized synthesis of the Telemann’s work.
The evening at the Sannazaro in Naples also featured the first ever performance of Pasquale Corrado’s song, “Black Telemann”, from which the entire concert takes its title. A composition in which, by exploring the possible metamorphoses of a fragment of Telemann’s “Concerto in E minor”, the relevance of this composer and his ability to inspire, even today, new musical scenarios are demonstrated. With “Black Telemann” the musical season conceived by Tommaso Rossi, artistic director of the Scarlatti Association ends which, as a whole and results in hand, can testify to an increasingly growing interest and appreciation of the public, particularly attentive to heterogeneous musical proposals and of a high standard.
