Telemann: Six Cantatas 1731

Remy, Ludger ;
Les Amis de Philippe;
Mertens, Klaus;
Jonas, Maria

CPO 777 297-2

»You were the first who gave me, at a tender age, with six certain cantatas from your work that then came into my hands, an idea of how vocal pieces, if they are to be beautiful, have to be organized. These cantatas […] are the first music that moved my heart.« These enthusiastic words were written by the Bach pupil Johann Friedrich Agricola in 1752 in his very first letter to Georg Philipp Telemann. He then went on to compare the »industrious full-voiced music« of his teacher and the »flowing facility and depictive vibrancy, inexhaustible in invention, « found by him in Telemann's music and serving him as a model. The »six certain cantatas« in question are identical to the six cantatas published by Telemann at his own press in 1731 and were very fittingly termed »Cantates galantes« three years later in an Amsterdam publishing catalogue. Our premiere recording demonstrates that Agricola's characterization of the cantatas was right on the mark: inexhaustible vibrancy is indeed their hallmark.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

CPO

08-10-2009

761203729722