Georg Philipp Telemann: Auf Christenheit! - Frankfurter Festmusiken 1716
Catalog Number: CPO_555_584-2
Telemann’s Frankfurt festival music of 1716 turns dynastic celebration into vivid theatre: jubilant church pages framed around a sermon, and an open-air serenata where peace, war, and providence speak in blazing brass and intimate lyricism.
Sample rate
96000 Hz
Georg Philipp Telemann: Auf Christenheit! - Frankfurter Festmusiken 1716
Written for Frankfurt’s “extraordinarily solemn” festivities marking the birth of Archduke Leopold, these two works show Telemann at his most resourceful—matching civic splendour with sharply characterised drama. The church music, designed as a liturgical triptych around Johann Georg Pritius’s sermon, moves from biblical dictum to communal thanksgiving, its unusually rich accompagnato writing and concerto-like solo textures lending the text a finely shaded rhetorical urgency. The evening serenata shifts the focus to public life: an allegorical cast—Germania, Irene, Mars, Frankfurt, Mercurius, and Providence—enacts the fragile hope of peace after years of war, by turns tender, sceptical, and exuberant. Telemann’s instrumentation is central to the experience, balancing radiant trumpets, horns, and drums with more intimate colours, and enlivening the outdoor spectacle with echo effects and quick-cut contrasts. Heard today, the music’s ceremonial purpose remains palpable, yet its invention and emotional variety give it a vitality far beyond its occasion.
Published date
2025-12-19
Number of discs
2
Sample rate
96000 Hz
Channels
stereo:24:2.0
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