lautten compagney: »In search of the best world«

Where can one live with confidence? Where is the best world? Georg Philipp Telemann poses these questions in his cantata Die Landlust. The nature-loving life in the countryside, in contrast to the city or the princely court, was already a popular theme in operas, singspiele and cantatas during the Baroque period. Telemann himself owned a large garden outside Hamburg and exchanged ideas about flowers and plants with Handel. In »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. Today, too, we are thinking about alternative ways of life in the face of climate change, the phase-out of coal and renewable energies. The lautten compagney combines Baroque music with a look back that provides impetus for the future.