On CPO's George Philipp Telemann: Drei sind, die da zeugen im Himmel, conductor Hermann Max leads the Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert through another installment delving into the largest repertory ever created by a major classical composer, Telemann's sacred cantatas, of which more than 1,400 survive. One would think Telemann would have been burnt out over time in writing so many cantatas, but apparently not; George Philipp Telemann: Drei sind, die da zeugen im Himmel contains four very different cantatas from ...
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On CPO's George Philipp Telemann: Drei sind, die da zeugen im Himmel, conductor Hermann Max leads the Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert through another installment delving into the largest repertory ever created by a major classical composer, Telemann's sacred cantatas, of which more than 1,400 survive. One would think Telemann would have been burnt out over time in writing so many cantatas, but apparently not; George Philipp Telemann: Drei sind, die da zeugen im Himmel contains four very different cantatas from differing historical points and locations within Telemann's long career -- approximately 68 years -- as a composer. The title cantata is an early one, prepared for a Trinity service in Eisenach, Johann Sebastian Bach's hometown. It sounds the most like Bach of these four, a big, bold cantata with excited Baroque trumpets and palpitating percussion. Ich hatte viel Bekümmernisse, written for the second Sunday in Lent for Frankfurt in 1717, has a dramatic, almost operatic quality that...
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