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Telemann - Liebe, was ist schoner als die Liebe: Wedding Cantatas | CPO 5553002

Telemann - Liebe, was ist schoner als die Liebe: Wedding Cantatas

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5553002

Barcode: 0761203530021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th July 2021

Contents

Artists

Julia Kirchner (soprano0
Georg Poplutz (tenor)
La Stagione Frankfurt

Conductor

Michael Schneider

Works

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Der Weiberorden, TWV20:49
Liebe, was ist schoner als die Liebe, TWV11:26
Lieben will ich, TWV20:21

Artists

Julia Kirchner (soprano0
Georg Poplutz (tenor)
La Stagione Frankfurt

Conductor

Michael Schneider

About

Georg Philipp Telemann never missed the opportunity to delight those around him with countless compositions treating the subject of love and its consequences. The origins of his enormous achievement in this field are certainly to be sought in his personal disposition: in his exuberant joy in composition, combined with an open, optimistic attitude in his dealings with his environment, which in his works not rarely revealed his roguish sense of humour. And so he above all was very much in demand as a composer of wedding pieces. The texts of the wedding serenata Liebe, was ist schöner als die Liebe undeniably exhibit mirthful exuberance and belong to the most original and wittiest musical creations of all by this composer. The serenata has the form of a disputatio, a dramatic dialogue in which an advocate of marriage (Ametas, soprano) and a sceptic (Crito, tenor) are in disagreement about the usefulness of the institution of marriage. The CD also includes the solo cantata Lieben will ich, in which the imponderables of love are celebrated in witty free texts, and the cantata Der Weiberorden, which quite clearly was composed in conjunction with a wedding feast and in lighter tones enables to join the young bride in joyous anticipation of her future married life.

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