In contrast to the virtuoso subtleties of many of his instrumental works, Georg Philipp Telemann's church music is often of a workaday cast, written in simple textures and for modest instrumental forces so that it could be used almost anywhere. The five Christmas-season works here display a feature that goes along with the technical accessibility: word-painting that is obvious and almost garish. Even a parishioner in the habit of snoozing through a Sunday church service would wake up at the stomping "Er übet Gewalt mit ...
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In contrast to the virtuoso subtleties of many of his instrumental works, Georg Philipp Telemann's church music is often of a workaday cast, written in simple textures and for modest instrumental forces so that it could be used almost anywhere. The five Christmas-season works here display a feature that goes along with the technical accessibility: word-painting that is obvious and almost garish. Even a parishioner in the habit of snoozing through a Sunday church service would wake up at the stomping "Er übet Gewalt mit seinem Arm und zerstreuet, die hoffartig sind" (He shows force with his arm and scatters the proud) in Telemann's Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, a German-language setting of the Magnificat. The rest of the works are all church cantatas, two for solo soprano and ensemble, and two for chorus and soloist or soloists, who get a lot of the word-painting devices. In the opening In deinem Wort und Sakrament (In thy word and sacrament), which is not too far from Bach's language, the diverse...
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