Mary Terey-Smith - Overtures & Cantatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Hamburger Ratsmusik - an ensemble looking back on a five-hundred-year history - teams up with the young countertenor Benno Schachtner on this recording of Georg Philipp Telemann's Six Moral Cantatas. During the decades between 1720 and 1750 the middle class of the early Enlightenment sought moral education and ethical improvement deriving from human nature and reason as part of it's never-ending quest for earthly happiness. It was with wit and charm that in his Moral Cantatas of 1735 Telemann set to music a poetic document conveying the spirit of this Enlightenment period. His only recently rediscovered Fantasies for Solo Viola da Gamba, published at the same time, are presented here in alternation with his Moral Cantatas, the title with which they were announced in a catalogue dating from August 1735. These two collections first performed together during a concert of the Hamburger Ratsmusik at the last Telemann Festival are now being presented here for the first time. These two works by Telemann were intended for professional and amateur musicians alike, and they seem to have met with special resonance among those interested parties who wanted to perform at home in smaller ensembles. Album Tracks 1. Die Zeit, TWV 20 23 2. Fantasie A-Dur, TWV 40 33 3. Der Geiz, TWV 20 26 4. Fantasie G-Dur, TWV 40 31 5. Die Falschheit, TWV 20 27 6. Das GLÜCK, TWV 20 25 7. Fantasie G-Moll, TWV 40 32 8. Die Großmut, TWV 20 28 9. Fantasie D-Moll, TWV 40 36 10. Die Hoffnung, TWV 20 24

Album Tracks 1. Pieces Pittoresques Paysage 2. Pieces Pittoresques Melancolie 3. Pieces Pittoresques Tourbillon 4. Pieces Pittoresques Sous-Bois 5. Pieces Pittoresques Mauresque 6. Pieces Pittoresques Idylle 7. Pieces Pittoresques Danse Villageoise 8. Pieces Pittoresques Improvisation 9. Pieces Pittoresques Menuet Pompeux 10. Pieces Pittoresques Scherzo-Valse 11. Suite Bergamasque Prelude 12. Suite Bergamasque Menuet 13. Suite Bergamasque Claire de Lune 14. Suite Bergamasque Passapied 15. Bourree Fantasque

Album Tracks 1. School of Anacreon. Recitative The Festive Board / Aria Tell Me Not the Joys 2. School of Anacreon. Recitative The Festive Board / Aria Business Title, Pomp and State... But Let 3. Delia. Recitative From Golden Slumber / Aria O'er Hill and Dale 4. Delia. Aria The Sun Too Soon Withdraws His Pow'r,... O Let Us Then the Time Improve 5. Frolick and Free. Aria Frolick and Free, for Pleasure Born 6. Frolick and Free. Aria But God of Sleep... Invade Me Not... We Must Be Oblig'd... When I Can Laugh 7. Frolick and Free. Aria But Oh, If Melting in My Arms 8. The Morning. Aria The Glitt'ring Sun 9. The Morning. Aria and Recitative The Lark His Warbling Matin Sings... the Village Up, the Shepherd 10. The Morning. Aria Oh! That on Th'enamel'd Green 11. Lydia. Recitative Beneath This Sad and Silent Gloom / Aria Lovely Maid 12. Lydia. Recitative I Dream of Her Unequall'd Charms / Aria Anguish Waste 13. Lydia. Recitative No, Let Him Triumph / Aria Wander Lydia, So Will I 14. Bacchus and Ariadne. (Ariadne) Recitative The Faithless Theseus / Aria Ah Theseus Stay 15. Bacchus and Ariadne. (Bacchus) Recitative The Jolly God / Aria Cease Lovely Nymph to Weep 16. Bacchus and Ariadne. Aria I Am Bacchus God of WineInch / Recitative With Soft Reluctance 17. Bacchus and Ariadne. Aria Learn Hence Ye Fond Maidens Who Droop and Who Pine 18. Aria Still You Flee Me 19. Recitative All These Foolish Notions / Aria From Thy Watchful Mother Flying