Pimpinone (2022)/ Telemann, Georg Philipp

Georg Philipp Telemann’s intermezzo Pimpinone celebrated its premiere at the Gänsemarkt Opera in Hamburg on 27 September 1725 as an insert in George Frideric Handel’s opera seria Tamerlano and turned out to be a major public draw that continued to find its place in the Hamburg performance program until 1740. Telemann too valued this work and published it on his own in 1728. (...) Without exaggeration it may be said that this cpo new production with the Akademie für Alte Musik represents a benchmark recording.|