Rahel Maas - Johannis-OratoriumIn the church year 1730 31, Telemann performed a volume of special conception: Regular oratorios were to be heard in the church service. And so the focus of our latest Telemann album is his magnificent oratorio for the feast of St. John, Gelobet sei der Herr, with expressive texts by the poet and musician Albrecht Jacob Zell. Zell succeeds in imagining dramatic, almost theatrical scenes, thus providing Telemann with models for tone painting. Not only

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The last piece for piano trio that Beethoven published during his lifetime has one of the longest compositional histories of all of his works

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the Chicago Sinfonietta's first recording with it's new music director

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