Telemann - Germanicus | CPO 7776022

Telemann - Germanicus

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 7776022

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 3rd January 2012

Contents

Artists

Olivia Stahn
Elisabeth Scholl
Matthias Rexroth
Albrecht Sack
Henryk Bohm
Tobias Bernd
Friedrich Praetorius
Dieter Bellmann (speaker)
Sachsisches Barockorchester

Conductor

Gotthold Schwarz

Works

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Germanicus

Artists

Olivia Stahn
Elisabeth Scholl
Matthias Rexroth
Albrecht Sack
Henryk Bohm
Tobias Bernd
Friedrich Praetorius
Dieter Bellmann (speaker)
Sachsisches Barockorchester

Conductor

Gotthold Schwarz

About

CPO is proud to present the world première recording of Georg Philipp Telemann’s opera Germanicus. Telemann had made reference to writing twenty operas during his four years in Leipzig, but sadly the scores have been lost and very few librettos and arias are extant. Michael Maul has proven that some 40 arias discovered at the Frankfurt University Library were from Telemann’s Germanicus and its modern premiere took place with Gotthold Schwarz and the Saxon Baroque Orchestra.

Germanicus is a tale of love, lust and political intrigue based very loosely on events during the first-century occupation of Teutonic territory by the Romans. Since only arias survive, for recitatives Maul substituted a tongue-in-cheek narrative, wittily delivered by actor Dieter Bellmann.

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