Maya magub telemann biography

Caroline Gill,  Gramophone  

British Violinist Magub tackles the Telemann Fantasias

This is second release in as many years of Telemann's vignettes that resolutely succeeds in keeping your attention from beginning to end.

The first was their transcription for viola by Ori Kam (Berlin Classics.

Maya magub telemann biography

8/12), where their main attraction was the warmth brought by bringing their pitch down to something more closely resembling the human voice. That added comfort in the sound made it possible – desirable – to sit and listen to the nearly 50 separate movements that constitute the complete set with out a break, but Maya Magub does not have that luxury of a mellifluous viola tone to help here.

She nevertheless succeeds, though, in leading the listener through Telemann's maze of musical mini-experiments with so much engagement that it is impossible to turn them off until they're finished.

She uses both gut and steel strings in the recording, which – combined with a bow that, althoug