Georg Philipp Telemann, unlike many of his contemporaries who were fond of traveling, almost never left Germany aside from one excursion to Paris. Nonetheless, his oeuvre resembles a manifesto over the marvelous synergy of European diversity and tolerance. Being the open-minded person he was, he was able to create just by studying scores of different provenances, which were mostly imported across the Alps and along the river Rhine, a complex ›mixed‹ style that knew no limits. With this program of expressivity, ease, a good portion of humor and Vivaldian Italianità, Concerto Köln and the flutist Jeremias Schwarzer present themselves as enthusiastic Europeans.