“Akademie für Alte Musik is one of the groups that has served Telemann’s music the most and best.“
Mariano Acero Ruilópez
Telemann: Ino & Late Works, performed by Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck, received an exceptional review from Scherzo!
“Georg Philipp Telemann is, everyone knows, one of the most prolific composers in history. But, curiously, he composed much of his music under pressure from certain family circumstances. First, his wife’s gambling addiction led him to create a real music publishing company to deal with his debts. When she abandoned him, he slowed down his creative intensity to resume it in 1755 when he had to take on the education of his grandson. And, at no less than 74 years old and proving to be still aware of the stylistic evolution of music, he composed a series of works that are, precisely, among the best of his production.
The Akademie für Alte Musik delves into this latest Telemann with one of his most dramatic cantatas and three instrumental works. She tells the tragic story of Ino, involved in an intricate story of jealousy, hatred and divine revenge, fighting to save her son and herself from the madness of her husband, to finally be elevated to Olympus.
The Akademie für Alte Musik is one of the groups that has served Telemann’s music the most and best. They leave here another excellent proof of this understanding and find in the soprano Christina Landshamer an interpreter who unfolds the cantata with the drama and expressiveness that she deserves. Great album, without a doubt.“
Mariano Acero Ruilópez
