Fasch: Ich danke dem Herrn / Missa in G / Overture in A major

As the court music director in Zerbst, Johann Friedrich Fasch had to deal directly with current religious trends and was obliged to occupy himself with Pietism. After all, from the beginning of his tenure there his duties had included the composition of the church music for every court religious service and for all the church feast days. Fasch had a special mission in mind when he penned his cantatas: he was very much interested in having his listeners not remain indifferent to the texts that were sung. One of Fasch's overture suites of extraordinary quality rounds off this CD. In his autobiography he acknowledged: "On this occasion I cannot avoid publicly acknowledging that I then learned mostly everything from the beautiful work of my most revered and beloved friend, Mr. Music Director Telemann, by constantly taking the same as a model for me, especially in the overtures."