Erik Bosgraaf & filoBarocco

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. It is particularly notable that 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 record 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