Die Auserwählten

Our album presents a selection of five works from the extensive, largely unexplored "Easter Cantata oeuvre" created by Georg Philipp Telemann during the course of his sixty years in Eisenach (1708-12), Frankfurt am Main (1712-21), and Hamburg (1721-67). Four of the works recorded here date from the 1720s and take us back to the years in Telemann’s creative life as a composer when he was the new music director of Hamburg’s five principal churches and was reorganizing the city’s church music and modernizing it in musical respects.

This album provides a multifaceted insight into the compositional work of the composer Jürgen Golle from Zwickau, Germany. Spanning works from over four decades, it offers a cross-section of his compositional oeuvre. Jürgen Golle, who was a university lecturer for many years in addition to his compositional activity, sees the core of his work primarily in smaller forms, especially vocal music. This is suitably reflected in the intimacy of the variable duo formations that characterize this album.

Fans mit gutem Musikgeschmack konnten an diesem Tag auf radioeins die Top 100 der größten Ost-Songs hören – ausgewählt von einer Branchen-Jury aus Ost + West.