Tuesday 22 March 2016
Tune of the Day: Affettuoso by Telemann
from Partita No. 2, arranged for flute and keyboard
This is the fifth movement, and fourth aria, of Georg Philipp Telemann's Partita No. 2 in G major, TWV 41:G2, originally published in 1716 as part of the Kleine Kammermusik (“little chamber music”) collection. The original edition indicates that the melody is intended to be played by an oboe, a violin, or a flute.