The Dutch budget-line label deserves some props for reissuing this 1989 recording of a pair of works by octogenarian Georg Philipp Telemann, originally released on Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv imprint. Even if they take a little effort to grasp fully, both works are masterpieces, something that's bound to sink in with listeners as they go into more frequent circulation. The "cantata drammatica" Ino, composed in 1765 not long before the composer's death, is for soprano soloist and orchestra. The episode it depicts would have ...
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The Dutch budget-line label deserves some props for reissuing this 1989 recording of a pair of works by octogenarian Georg Philipp Telemann, originally released on Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv imprint. Even if they take a little effort to grasp fully, both works are masterpieces, something that's bound to sink in with listeners as they go into more frequent circulation. The "cantata drammatica" Ino, composed in 1765 not long before the composer's death, is for soprano soloist and orchestra. The episode it depicts would have been familiar to a Hamburg audience of the time, but now is much less so. As annotator Peter Czornyj (notes are in English only on the copy received) points out, the libretto, by Berlin poet-philosopher Karl Wilhelm Ramler from a section of Ovid's Metamorphoses, begins where Handel's oratorio Semele leaves off. For a feminist analyst it might be called low-hanging fruit. Ino is Semele's sister, and like Semele is on the god Juno's bad side because of Semele's affair with Jupiter....
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