In his days Telemann was a highly respected composer not at least for his knowledge of style and versatility. Telemann developed a strong preference for highly communicative music. He felt himself very confortable with the genre of the French ouverture or suite closely connected to the fantastic world of opera. Telemann introduced a new sort of light-footed music without falling in frivolity. His over two hundred suites for orchestra distinguish themselves by humor, fantasy and often bizarre and unknown melodies, rhythms and elements of folkmusic.
This is definitely the case in La Lyra where the ‘hurdy-gurdy’ can be heard. B’Rock loves this music and asked the Belgian sax-player and composer Pol Mareen to write a new piece based on the heritage of Telemann and especially composed for the early instruments of the orchestra.