Erik Bosgraaf and filoBarocco's concert 'Telemann Goes East' at LIFEM 2024

Virtuoso speculative music from the 18th century, including Polish dances from the Rostock Manuscript, TWV 45 In this programme, Erik Bosgraaf, together with filoBarocco, searches for Polish traditional folk music through the eyes, or rather pen, of Georg Philipp Telemann. In the 18th century, Telemann was a court composer in Sorau (now Zary, Poland) and wrote down all of the melodies he heard in the taverns. Notably, this gives us an idea of what that music sounded like, because folk music was often not written down. The well-known ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax travelled around the world with a recording device in the middle of the last century to document dying living musical cultures of minorities before they disappeared due to the emerging globalisation and mass communication tools in his time. So it is up to us to use our imagination, be inspired and bring this music to life in our own way. Erik Bosgraaf and filoBarocco do that as an ‘educated guess’ and, with great knowledge of European folk and baroque music, create their own version of what inspired Telemann three centuries ago... ACT I 13 Poloniesie 25 Hanaquose 15 Poloniesie 16 Poloniese 4 Poloniesie 28 Poloniesie 6 Poloniesie 5 Poloniesie ACT II 20 Poloniesie 30 Poloniesie 12 Poloniesie 24 Hanaquose 2 Poloniesie 11 Poloniesie 14 Poloniesie 7 Poloniesie 17 Poloniesie ACT III 10 Poloniesie 26 Poloniesie 22 Poloniesie 27 Poloniesie 1 Poloniè de Telleman (Hanaquoise from Overture TWV 55:D3) ACT IV 3 Poloniesie 29 Vitement 9 Poloniesie 18 Poloniesie 19 Poloniesie 23 Hanaquose 21 Poloniesie 8 Poloniesie © 2024 London International Festival of Early Music. All rights reserved. Filming, copying or redistribution of this video without permission is prohibited.