Lachen Weinen Ausrasten

A guide to contentment and optimism: these are the gems from Georg Philipp Telemann's Moral Cantatas that mezzo-soprano Susanne Langner has collected on this recording. With remarkable vocal elegance, the singer, who works with renowned formations such as amarcord, the Lautten Compagney, and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, takes up the cudgels for the vocal chamber music of the great Hamburg composer, unfortunately still overshadowed by his instrumental works. A true source of beautiful melodies and witty texts, distinctively and imaginatively set!

A guide to contentment and optimism: these are the gems from Georg Philipp Telemann's Moral Cantatas that mezzo-soprano Susanne Langner has collected on her GENUIN album.

Kati and Steffi are best friends since childhood. But as they step into adulthood, both their perfect friendship and their personalities get harshly tested by a series of unfortunate events; mainly caused by Steffi finding out her father wasn't quite faithful to her mother, and the two girls getting hit by the consequences of her delirious revenge plans.

Sorrow, desolation and comfort: In 1723 and 1724, the congregation of the Lutheran parish church of St Thomas’s in Leipzig had ample opportunity to discover, week after week, a little more of the talent of their new Kantor, a certain Johann Sebastian Bach. Among the ‘obligatory cantatas’ that were his weekly lot were the three presented on this album, which make use of the texts of Psalms 22 and 130 (the De profundis: ‘Out of the deep have I called unto thee’) or deal with the ‘Weeping, wailing, lamenting, fearing’ that are our everyday fare in this vale of tears. In fact this cantata BWV 12, which actually dates from considerably earlier in Bach’s career, gives a particularly doleful tone to a programme whose ultimate message will nonetheless bring succour to souls in torment…

Timm Thalers Lachen kann niemand widerstehen. Es ist so ansteckend und entwaffnend, dass der schwerreiche Baron Lefuet es unbedingt besitzen will. Und so schlägt Lefuet dem Waisenjungen einen ungewöhnlichen Handel vor: Wenn Timm ihm sein Lachen verkauft, wird er in …

Das Weinen eines Babys löst universal bei allen Menschen die gleichen Emotionen aus. Aber ein Weinen bedeutet nicht immer Hunger, Schmerz oder Einsamkeit. Das Weinen der Babys ist eine geheime Klangwelt. Seit mehr als 40 Jahren untersucht Kathleen Wermke auf fast allen Kontinenten vorsprachliche Babylaute - sie hat einzigartige Melodien, Intervalle und rhythmische Akzentuierungen gefunden.