Da Vinci Classics proudly presents the first modern recording of Musicalische Gemüths-Ergötzung by Jacob Kremberg, a forgotten gem of the German Baroque repertoire.
These intimate arias with continuo open a window onto a world where devotion, poetry, and domestic music-making intertwined in refined simplicity. Conceived for flexible forces, they could be performed in private homes, chapels, or small civic halls—spaces where music spoke directly to the heart.
Each miniature distills piety and emotion into eloquent melody, where counterpoint and rhetoric illuminate the meaning of words. The performers approach the music with deep sensitivity to language and style, favoring clear diction and natural phrasing, while letting the continuo line shape affetti and dance gestures. Ornament becomes speech, rhetoric moulds emotion, and the basso continuo breathes like a heartbeat beneath the vocal line.
This recording restores the warmth of a long-lost practice: music made not for grand occasions, but to edify, console, and delight small communities.
The result is a rediscovered splendor of human scale—sincere, radiant, and profoundly moving in its intimacy.
