TELEMANN: Umschlinget uns, ihr sanften Friedensbande, Aria

TELEMANN: Umschlinget uns, ihr sanften Friedensbande, Aria
This is the cantata for the 17th Sunday after Trinity, and the soloist Guy Cutting sings a prayer for peace by the Hamburg poet Matthaeus Wilckens, while an oboe echoes and embroiders the melody - helping its pious emotions reach the heart, as well as the head.
This clip is taken from our Telling Tales with Telemann series on OAE Player. To watch the full film and others in the series, please visit www.oaeplayer.com/telling-tal...
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In the summer of 1722 Georg Philipp Telemann was offered the post of Kantor at St Thomas’s Church in Leipzig. He turned it down. Disappointed, the Leipzig committee declared that “since the best man could not be hired, a mediocre one will have to be tolerated” - and gave the job to Johann Sebastian Bach instead. It’s a story to make jaws drop, but it does demonstrate Telemann’s reputation as a composer of sacred music (and his lifetime total of more than 1000 cantatas makes Bach look like a part-timer).
Hamburg, where Telemann lived for much of his life, was a booming port, and he hit upon the profitable idea of publishing a complete set of church cantatas - one for each Sunday and feast day of the religious year. Der Harmonische Gottersdienst was published in 1726, and each of its 72 short cantatas used just a single singer, a solo instrumentalist and a continuo - making them performable in even the smallest churches.
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Sound by Ben Connellan
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[@cliveletchford3324]

Thanks for this. I have been working through the whole of this yearly cycle of cantatas with friends most weeks. Such a wealth of wonderful music that is far too little known.

[@arcadianmalerei1155]

Correct!! I also know them well, by their divisions into each suggested Instrument! although all possible on Violin....NOT as some think Telemann's first published cycle>>That was 1710/11!! (Gotha)=Geistliches Singen & Spielen. I always call these :Sparkling Spiritual Gems!! He then did the Fortsetzung des Harmonischen Gottesdienstes= 1 Chamber version 2. Full Choral.

[@shoshannafachima1306]

Bravo bravissimo
Beautiful oboe,so sweet and warm

[@Peuma]

Vorbildlich

[@veramckenna8365]

I ❤ it. I listen in the mornings before I work.

[@BenjiBartlett]

Truly beautiful. Thank you for sharing such gorgeous musicianship & fascinating history.

[@barbaragauhl6175]

Beautiful ❤️🙏

[@giorgiolamborghini813]

Who said that Telemann only wrote virtuosic but easy music? This Aria proves that he also made high level committed music on a par with his contemporary and friend J.S. Bach. Excellent performance!

[@idraote]

just lovely!

[@trabouliste1037]

Ich habe als Suchkriterium „Why I hate Telemann“ eingegeben und als ersten Treffer dieses Video erhalten.
Der Algorithmus ist also völlig unnütz oder absolut pro Telemann, die Aufnahme ist wirklich sehr schön, auch wenn sie mich trotzdem noch nicht von Telemann überzeugt.

[@francoisvillon1300]

А кто на гобое играет?

[@user-tt2be2wz6j]

и кто паркет ложил?