Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra (1967) · Telemanniana

Hans Werner Henze composed his 2nd Piano Concerto, just like the Telemanniana also included on the CD, in 1976, so to speak at the intersection of his era as the "darling of the establishment" and the time of the "outcast, ostracized communist". While the piano concerto had its world premiere in Bielefeld with Christoph Eschenbach, the Berlin Philharmonic commissioned the "Telemanniana" to mark the 200th anniversary of Georg Philipp Telemann's death and premiered the piece under Gerd Albrecht.