This box offers a magisterial demonstration of the diversity of Telemann’s output: operatic, first of all, with an exceptional approach to the famous myth of Orpheus; sacred with Brockes’s account of the Passion of Christ, which inspired the composer to write a dense and powerful score; and finally orchestral with his concertante works with recorder (bravo Maestro Steger!) and a selection of overtures ‘à la française’ that constantly remind us of the influence of Italian and French music on his idiom. But beyond questions of genre, it is above all the incredible richness of his style that the expert Berlin musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik have revealed to us over the past few years!

Artists

Dorothea Roschmann (Orasia), Roman Trekel (Orpheus), Ruth Ziesak (Eurydice), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Ismene), Werner Gura (Eurimedes), Isabelle Poulenard (Cephisa), Hanno Muller-Brachmann (Pluto), Axel Kohler (Ascalax), Birgitte Christensen (Tochter Zion I, Gläubige Seele I, Maria, 3. Magd), Lydia Teuscher (Tochter Zion II, Gläubige Seele II, 2. Magd), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Judas, Gläubige Seele III, 1. Magd), Donát Havár (Petrus, Pilatus, Gläubige Seele IV, Hauptmann), Daniel Behle (Evangelist, Gläubige Seele VI) & Johannes Weisser (Jesus, Gläubige Seele V), Maurice Steger (recorder)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs & Georg Kallweit