The setting of ‘Jesu Meine Freude” by Georg Philipp Telemann (1691-1787) dates from a 1719 cantata cycle, written while he worked in Frankfurt at the Church of the Barefoot Friars (today, St. Paul’s). The setting has simple charm and is scored for choir, soloists, and violin, oboe and obbligato instrument.
Violins in the orchestra of the Telemann’s day were routinely doubled by ogees, since they made less sound that today’s modern violin. The Choral texts were written by Johann Frank (1618-1677) and the Cantata texts were written by Erdmann Neumeister (1671-1756). We welcome Shari Link on violin and Robert Knoll on oboe and we are thankful they have helped contribute to the beauty of the music in our worship.
