Epoca

Janitsch was a superb contrapuntist, so it's fortunate his historically significant compositions are among the surviving manuscripts in the Archive of Berlin's Singakademie. In this recording on CPO, they offer the modern listener a vibrant impression of the cultured and imaginative spirit that animated Janitsch's Musical Academies in Berlin. The members of the chamber music ensemble Epoca Barocca share a passion for the performance of baroque music on original instruments, and their programmes regularly feature unjustly neglected works from the baroque era.

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was a highly esteemed composer mentioned in the same breath as Bach, Telemann, and Handel. Today his name has largely vanished from our concert programs, but not from the cpo catalogue. Stölzel did remarkable things in the field of sacred music, as demonstrated by previous releases on cpo, but the label now presents the composer’s chamber music.