These are vibrant, colourful musicians who are not afraid to spike conventionally sweet textures with hot pepper, or to roughen up edges that others smooth out...A stimulating and superbly engineered release, highly recommended.

Rebel delivers exciting performances. Its director, Jörg-Michael Schwarz, has his roots in the German early music world and once played in Musica antiqua Köln. The latter's influence is clearly noticeable... This is anything but middle-of-the-road, and that is especially important as Telemann's concertos are - with some exceptions - not that well-known. If this disc fails to convince the sceptical listener that these concertos are first-rate stuff then nothing will.