Calendar
The Flower Friends
Georg Philipp Telemann
Rural joy. Small cantata of forest and meadow | Cello sonata D major TWV 41:D6 | Two Odes Overture for solo harpsichord A minor TWV 32:12
Georg Friedrich Händel
Violin sonata A major HWV 327 (op. 1) | »Sing, oh soul« | »Flaming Rose« | »The shivering shining of playful waves« From: Nine German arias | La bianca rosa. Cantata for soprano & basso continuo
Katja Stuber, soprano
Mayumi Hirasaki, violin
Kristin von der Goltz, violoncello
Christine Schornsheim, harpsichord
18th century citizens would leave the cities’ hustle and bustle and happily discover »wonderful traces of nature’s creative forces«. Among them was Hamburg’s poet senator Barthold Heinrich Brockes, whose garden probably turned Telemann into a lover of all things floral. His friend Händel not only lovingly set Brocke’s nature poetry to music in the German arias, he also sent Telemann exotic plants from London. A top quartet of female artists presents the flower friends’ fantasy in the magnificent setting that is the incomparable terraces of Sanssouci’s Orangery Palace.