Music by Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Féry Rebel and Jean-Philippe Rameau

Where can one live with confidence? Where is the best world? Georg Philipp Telemann asks himself these questions in his cantata ‘Die Landlust’ (The Love of the Country). Life in the countryside, close to nature, as opposed to life in the big city or at the royal court, was already a popular theme in operas, singspiele and cantatas during the Baroque period.

The composer Telemann had a large garden just outside the city of Hamburg and exchanged ideas with Handel, among others, about flowers and plants. In ‘moral cantatas’ or texts by the German poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes, many musicians dealt with the questions of meaning of their time. Handel's extremely famous ‘Nine German Arias’ still give us a resounding testimony to these ideas today. In the present day, we are also discussing alternative ways of life in the face of climate change, the phase-out of coal and renewable energies. Together with soprano Johanna Kaldewei and actress Imogen Kogge, the lautten compagney uses Baroque music to take a look at history that is intended to encourage reflection on the future.