“Concerto for Recorder, Strings & Continuo in C major, TWV 51:C1 - I. Allegretto” by Georg Philipp Telemann [1725-1735] performed by Michala Petri with Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Inoa Brown [July 1980]

Michala Petri reminds us all that the recorder, now an important music teaching tool with children, was once a legitimate concert instrument. This Telemann concerto, written sometime between 1725 and 1735 in Hamburg, Germany, appeared during the instrument’s Baroque-era peak. 

Georg Philipp Telemann, hand-colored aquatint by Valentin Daniel Preisler, after a lost painting by Louis Michael Schneider, 1750.