Keyboardist Trimbach does her own thing with 300 year old Telemann music - her own ornamentation and rhythms make for a relaxed but persuasive style, played on a Roland XV88 to sound like a nylon guitar

11 MP3 Songs
CLASSICAL: Early Music, EASY LISTENING: Background Music



Details:
I came across a book of Telemann Fantasies about a year ago...finally got round to playing through them, and thought....these are beautiful! Then I came up with the idea of recording them in my own unique style...I've had years of intense Classical piano training, so my mind is full of the "rules" for playing this era of music, but for these recordings I've done my own thing...just played them with the ornamentation and rhythmic variation that I liked the sound of! The composer side of me really enjoyed this!!
So it was great fun doing this CD...my first project in my new studio [I put the paint brushes and drill away while I did it].
I didn't want to use a piano to record this music because the piano action and sound we have now just didn't exist when these Fantasies were written [Georg Philipp Telemann 1681-1767]. They would have used a light, more percussive keyboard....so I sat down at my Roland XV88, with its 1200 sounds plus expander keyboard card and searched for a sound. I thought I would end up with something like a harpsichord...but no!!...after some trial recordings and sitting back listening to the results, to my surprise I chose the sound called "nylon guitar." It's gentle...and the style of the 2-part writing of these Fantasies ends up sounding like two guitarists sitting in a room...but it's just me, both hands at the same time, on my keyboard. Also....there are no edits on these takes. Can't explain why, but I didn't want to do any edits...I wanted a "live performance" aspect to the music...like the guitarists were sitting in the corner of your room.
Telemann wrote very few pieces for the keyboard...the "Fantasies pour le Clavessin, 3 Douzaines" were written some time before 1737, which is when they first appeared.
PS...the composer side of me particularly likes to write classical music for the didjeridu...you can hear samples / purchase my CD When West Meets East on cdbaby.com