Old Music for the New Year (Part 1): Telemann Cantatas for Advent and Christmas from biber com Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 30 min 50 sec
✓ Published: 24-Dec-2021

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The first of two concerts featuring Telemann Cantatas for this holiday season, music that deserves to be programmed more frequently. Written to be performed in church or the ‘domestic scene’, these evocative cantatas are a masterly blend of tunefulness with skilled counterpoint and vocal and instrumental virtuosity, some written for ‘hohe Stimme’ (soprano or tenor) or for ‘mittlere Stimme’ (alto or baritone), one obbligato instrument (violin, transverse flute, recorder or oboe) and b