“Fly, you my sighs”

e.g. baroque

• Benjamin Lyko, countertenor
  
• Yongbeom Kwon, countertenor
  
• Javier Aguilar Bruno, violin
  
• Semyon Gurevich, violin
  
• Lea Rahel Bader, cello
  
• Bernhard Reichel, theorbo, guitar
  
• Yeuntae Jung, recorder
  
• Sebastian Flaig, percussion
  
• Clemens Flick, harpsichord, organ
  

David Pohle (1624-1695): Twelve Love Songs

David Pohle's love songs, based on texts by Paul Fleming from 1650, are arguably among the earliest works in German music history that deserve the name "song cycle." In these partly humorous, partly elegiac texts, Fleming addresses his tragic love for the two sisters Anna and Elsabe Niehus.


David Pohle, a student of Heinrich Schützen, brilliantly set these odes to music as duets for two treble singers—today we would call them countertenors. It is particularly noteworthy that in the partly strophic, partly cantata-like forms, the two singers engage in dialogue not only with each other, but above all with the two violins, which symbolize, in a sense, the presence of the highly esteemed ladies, while the vocal parts express the protagonist's inner turmoil.