GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767): Moral Cantatas - Die Zeit, Die Hoffnung, Das Glück, Der Geiz, Die Falschheit, and Die Großmut, TWV 20:23-28, Fantasies for Viola da Gamba, TWV 40:31, 32, 33 and 36.

Description: The middle class of the early Enlightenment sought moral education and ethical improvement deriving from human nature and reason as part of its never-ending quest for earthly happiness. With wit and charm in his Moral Cantatas of 1735, Telemann set to music a poetic document conveying the spirit of this Enlightenment period. German-English texts. Benno Schachtner (countertenor), Hamburger Ratsmusik; Simone Eckert (viola da gamba).