Grosse Passion - Graun

Although Der tod Jesu is the most popular Graun's passion, he composes three more, one of which is represented her under the title “Grosse Passion” or Grand Passion, whose expressiveness and great diversity in the instrumentation, allowed it to be regarded as a masterpiece. 

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Sonatas and Trio Sonatas - Hasse

Hasse compositions are among the finest of all history. In his lifetime Hasse dominated great part of the musical scene in Europe, especially for his operatic output. His grace and spontaneous melody render the music astonishing pleasant.

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Der Tod Jesu - Graun

There are two major works under the title "Der tod Jesu", two compositions of a very high degree in inventiveness that emerged over the hand of two great masters, Telemann and Graun that premiered almost simultaneously, just one week of separation between each other.  Unfortunately, history have judge unequal both works, dismissing Telemann’s one and covering of glory Graun’s one. But which were the facts to this to happen been Telemann the God of music by that time? One explication is perhaps the stylistic changes that were growing to welcome the new stile “Gallant” that characterized the classicism, in which Graun’s composition is made of.  Another possibility that is stated into the the booklet is the fact that Graun’s Der tod Jesu along History have been compared with Bach’s Mathews Passion, so, Graun’s work hung of Bach’s work success, but that do not discredict the greath quality of Graun's work.

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El Gran Barroco de Bolivia

Once again, following my last post (El gran Barroco del Perú and A Latin-American BaroqueChristmas) of Hispano-American Baroque, where the Cuban Coro Exaudi touches this hidden exotic repertoire with splendid pleasure and extraordinary grace, leading us to the époques when America was conquered, for good or for bad, but that’s History with "H".

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Harmonischer Gottesdienst (Easter and Pentecost Cantatas) - Telemann

The Harmonischer Gottesdienst is a collection of cantatas to be played every sunday in the Lutheran Calendar. In fact it is the most famous Telemann's set of vocal music.

Telemann was not just an excellent musician, admired and respected by everyone, he was moreover an extraordinary instrumentalist, capable of playing almost all the instruments of the orchestra; he was also poet, pedagogue, theoretician, he studied law and was attached to sciences and classic letters and arts, adding to all this his skill to make business, enthusiasm for traveling and his easiness to speak various languages. 

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All the skills Telemann had facilitate his fame to be spread to all corners of Europe and his music to be acquired almost by everyone who can afford it.

Apart, Telemann was very versatile, a quality that enable him to write music no matter the circumstances, music for the most prodigious musicians and singers, and music for dilettantes, which is the case in great part of the Harmonischer Gotesdienst, because the oeuvre is intended for both performances, church and in private meetings or domestic, so the writing is aim mostly to dilettantes, but despite of it, the mastery and beauty is undeniable.

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