Cantar Alla Viola / Balbeisi, Nadine / Marn, Fernando
Jacob Kremberg: Musicalische Gemths-ergtzung, Oder Ari9
The Musicalische Gemuths-Ergotzung offers a vivid glimpse into German Baroque intimacy, where devotion, poetry and domestic music-making met. These arias with continuo were conceived for flexible forces: they could be sung at home, in a chapel, or in a small civic hall. Each miniature distils piety and sentiment into eloquent melody, where counterpoint and rhetoric amplify the meaning of words. The performers, attentive to language and style, privilege clear diction and natural phrasing, letting the bass line guide affetti and dance gestures. Ornament becomes speech, rhetoric shapes emotion, and continuo breathes like a heartbeat under the vocal lines. This recording restores the warmth of a practice once widespread: music made to edify, comfort, and entertain small communities. What emerges is splendour in everyday scale: sincere, luminous, crafted with care, close enough to touch, and still moving in its simplicity.