lautten compagney: "In Search of the Best World"

Where does one live with trust? Where is the best world? These questions are posed by Georg Philipp Telemann in his cantata "Die Landlust" (The Country Delight). The nature-connected life in the countryside, in contrast to the city or the princely court, was already a popular theme in operas, singspiels, and cantatas during the Baroque period. Telemann himself owned a large garden outside the gates of Hamburg and exchanged ideas about flowers and plants with Handel. In "Moralische Kantaten" (Moral Cantatas) or in texts by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, many composers grappled with the existential questions of their time. Handel's famous "Nine German Arias" still bear witness to these ideas today. Even now, in light of climate change, the phase-out of coal, and renewable energies, we are contemplating alternative models of living. The lautten compagney connects Baroque music with a retrospective view that provides impulses for the future.