Ensemble Masques & Olivier Fortin - Bach & Bernier Routes du café (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 363 MB | Tracks: 27 | 71:22 min
Style: Classical | Label: Alpha
The history of coffee is fascinating! From the opening of the first establishments in Constantinople in the middle of the sixteenth century to the appearance and diffusion of the drink in Europe in the following century, coffee and coffee houses were highly fashionable. Two composers devoted a cantata to the topic. Gottfried Zimmermann opened his famous coffee house in Leipzig in 1715 and organised concerts there. Around 1735, Bach composed his famous cantata Schweigt still, plaudert nicht, which was probably performed there.