Peter Kooij, the bass soloist, began singing in his father's choir at age six and has made over 150 CD recordings.
Georg Philipp Telemann was an exceptionally prolific composer, creating over 3,600 surviving works across all genres of his time.
The Kölner Akademie, led by Michael Alexander Willens, is a period instrumental ensemble that performs music from the Baroque to the present day.
The four cantatas on this album were selected from a collection of 150 cantatas preserved at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels.
Three of the cantatas on this album are unique to the Brussels collection and appear here for the first time on disc.
Telemann composed over 1,700 cantatas for every Sunday of the liturgical year between 1717 and 1765.
