Unter Freunden: Handel, Platti & Telemann (Live) Clara Blessing

• Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759): Concerto a 4 in D Minor, TWV 43:d3:
• 1 Handel: Concerto a 4 in D Minor, TWV 43:d3: I. Adagio (Live) 02:19
• 2 Handel: Concerto a 4 in D Minor, TWV 43:d3: II. Allegro (Live) 01:56
• 3 Handel: Concerto a 4 in D Minor, TWV 43:d3: III. Largo (Live) 01:13
• 4 Handel: Concerto a 4 in D Minor, TWV 43:d3: IV. Allegro (Live) 01:55
• 5 Handel: Nine German Arias, HWV 202-210: No. 3, Süßer Blumen Ambraflocken, HWV 204 (Live) 07:12
• Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697 - 1763): Sonata Oboe Solo in C Minor, I 100:
• 6 Platti: Sonata Oboe Solo in C Minor, I 100: I. Adagio assai (Live) 01:56
• 7 Platti: Sonata Oboe Solo in C Minor, I 100: II. Allegro assai (Live) 02:34
• 8 Platti: Sonata Oboe Solo in C Minor, I 100: III. Non tanto adagio (Live) 02:17
• 9 Platti: Sonata Oboe Solo in C Minor, I 100: IV. Giga presto (Live) 01:27
• George Frideric Handel: Nine German Arias, HWV 202-210:
• 10 Handel: Nine German Arias, HWV 202-210: No. 2, Das zitternde Glänzen der spielenden Wellen, HWV 203 (Live) 05:36
• Giovanni Benedetto Platti: Trio a Flauto Traverso, Violino ò Oboe et Basso Continuo in G Major, I 72:
• 11 Platti: Trio a Flauto Traverso, Violino ò Oboe et Basso Continuo in G Major, I 72: I. Adagio (Live) 01:48
• 12 Platti: Trio a Flauto Traverso, Violino ò Oboe et Basso Continuo in G Major, I 72: II. Allegro (Live) 03:03
• 13 Platti: Trio a Flauto Traverso, Violino ò Oboe et Basso Continuo in G Major, I 72: III. Adagio (Live) 03:14
• 14 Platti: Trio a Flauto Traverso, Violino ò Oboe et Basso Continuo in G Major, I 72: IV. Presto (Live) 01:54
• Sonata a tre cioe Violino overo Oboe, Violoncello e Basso in G Major, I 71:
• 15 Platti: Sonata a tre cioe Violino overo Oboe, Violoncello e Basso in G Major, I 71: I. Adagio (Live) 02:39
• 16 Platti: Sonata a tre cioe Violino overo Oboe, Violoncello e Basso in G Major, I 71: II. Allegro (Live) 03:07
• 17 Platti: Sonata a tre cioe Violino overo Oboe, Violoncello e Basso in G Major, I 71: III. Largo (Live) 02:58
• 18 Platti: Sonata a tre cioe Violino overo Oboe, Violoncello e Basso in G Major, I 71: IV. Allegro (Live) 02:39
• George Frideric Handel: Nine German Arias, HWV 202-210:
• 19 Handel: Nine German Arias, HWV 202-210: No. 9, Flammende Rose, Zierde der Gaerten, HWV 210 (Live) 05:47
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767): Fantasia in D Minor, TWV 40-7:
• 20 Telemann: Fantasia in D Minor, TWV 40-7: I. Dolce (Live) 01:41
• Giovanni Benedetto Platti: Sonata seconda à Violoncello solo in D Minor, I 86:
• 21 Platti: Sonata seconda à Violoncello solo in D Minor, I 86: I. Allegro (Live) 01:45
• 22 Platti: Sonata seconda à Violoncello solo in D Minor, I 86: II. Adagio (Live) 01:59
• Georg Philipp Telemann: Fantasia for Violin without Bass, TWV 40:17:
• 23 Telemann: Fantasia for Violin without Bass, TWV 40:17: II. Allegro (Live) 01:46
• George Frideric Handel: Nine German Arias, HWV 202-210:
• 24 Handel: Nine German Arias, HWV 202-210: No. 6, Meine Seele hört im Sehen, HWV 207 (Live) 02:26
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Chamber Concerto in G Minor, RV 107:
• 25 Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto in G Minor, RV 107: I. Allegro (Live) 02:26
• 26 Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto in G Minor, RV 107: II. Largo (Live) 02:51
• 27 Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto in G Minor, RV 107: III. Allegro (Live) 03:59
• Total Runtime 01:14:27

Info for Unter Freunden: Handel, Platti & Telemann (Live)

Conversations and music lasting into the early morning hours: this is likely how one must imagine the evening of August 17, 1722, at the residence of Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schonborn in Wiesentheid Castle. "They remained until five o'clock in the morning and then departed," the count reported the next day to his brother, the Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg, who had sent him his court musicians. They came from Italy, and had among them the outstanding oboist Giovanni Benedetto Platti. Together with Clara Blessing, her ensemble recreates this special evening of music-making among friends (Unter Freunden) with Italian-German masterworks of the eighteenth century.

Clara Blessing, oboe
Julia Doyle, soprano
Mayumi Hirasaki, violin
Michael Schmidt-Casdorff, flute
Rebecca Mertens, bassoon
Kristin von der Glotz, cello
Sebastian Küchler-Blessing, harpsichord

Prof. Clara Blessing
The oboist Prof. Clara Blessing is active as a soloist, chamber musician and in the orchestra on contemporary instruments ranging from baroque to modern. She has performed as solo oboist with Concerto Köln and the Köthener BachCollektiv, La Divina Armonia and Arcangelo, MusicAeterna and the Budapest Festival Orchestra under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Kent Nagano and Teodor Currentzis. As the youngest member at the time, she was part of the European Union Baroque Orchestra in the same position. Her concerts have taken her to such venues as the Royal Albert Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the KKL Lucerne, and to festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and MusicaAntiqua Bruges. Numerous CD, radio and television recordings document her work. Clara Blessing is the first musician in her field to win a prize at the International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg. As a recorder player, she was a multiple federal prize winner at "Jugend musiziert". Supported by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and Yehudi Menuhin "Live Music Now", she was trained by Christian Schneider and Michael Niesemann and passed her concert exam at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen with distinction.

Since the summer semester of 2020, Clara Blessing has been teaching as professor for historical double-reed instruments at the University of Music Würzburg.

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