The genesis of this album of Ensemble Ventus Iucundus with quartets by Georg Philipp Telemann is due to the idea and initiative of Reinhard Czasch, flautist and teacher for transverse flute and historically informed performance at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. The great variety of instruments in these quartets, ranging from instruments like transverse flute, recorder or violin to bassoon, oboe and basso continuo shows the proficiency of Telemann's writing, setting up different instruments in a way that their individual tonal characteristics are portrayed to the utmost extent – possibly due to his own skill of playing ten instruments himself, including trombone and French horn. The beauty of Telemann's oeuvre lying herein is supported splendidly by the historic instruments of the Ensemble Ventus Iucundus.