Donald Macleod turns the spotlight on Telemann, exploring the challenges he faced, the influence of his family and friends, and the composer's involvement in promoting his music.

Telemann was probably the most prolific composer in musical history. He wrote almost as much as Bach and Handel put together (and each of them wrote a perplexing amount) including 600 French overtures ...

Telemann's orchestral suites (or overtures, as they are more correctly termed) represent the apogee of a genre which the German-speaking world made its own in the first half of the 18th century. If ...