Winkel Oitzinger Poplutz Kooij Willens Kolner Akademie - Easter CantatasOur album presents a selection of five works from the extensive, largely unexplored Easter Cantata oeuvre created by Georg Philipp Telemann during the course of his sixty years in Eisenach (1708 12), Frankfurt am Main (1712 21), and Hamburg (1721 67). Four of the works recorded here date from the 1720s and take us back to the years in Telemann's creative life as a composer when he was the new music director of Hamburg's five principal churches and was

in den Bergen' from The Csárdás Princess) and Victor Herbert (Gypsy Love Song from The Fortune Teller)

but was not published by Schuberth until 1867

stage presence

In attempting to revive in part the musical world of Sir Francis Tregian

They've shared the stage & toured alongside bands such as Fear Factory

the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's principal oboe emeritus

featuring vocalist Shirley Crabbe

and a rhythm section that would make any southern soul icon proud

That's when I started getting back to it

alongside standards by Coltrane

With cheerful frankness

And now for the first time ever