After all the dust settles, Telemann remains a genial and inventive composer, but only a maniac would call him great. Still, geniality and invention are not bad, if you cannot born to the ranks of genius. This collection conveys perfectly what is best in his art. The playing and recording are likewise satisfying, and Pieter Andriessen's excellent program-notes (in English and French) are far better than one usulally finds on recordings of this sort. ( )