BACH / SACRED CANTATAS - For his first album devoted entirely to works sung in German, star countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has chosen four religious cantatas: two by J.S. Bach (including the...
After Telemann had composed the "French Cycle," he wrote his annual cycle for 1716/17 in the Italian style, the other style then current in the music world. This style is characterized by the...
Even in the 18th Century Life in University Towns Offered Many Temptations, Just Made to Distract Students from Their Studies, Though Certainly Music Ranked Among the More Harmless Diversions...
Our album presents a selection of five works from the extensive, largely unexplored Easter Cantata oeuvre created by Georg Philipp Telemann during the course of his sixty years in Eisenach (1708-12),...