Over the course of his life, Georg Philipp Telemann wrote over forty settings of the Passion, of which twenty-two have survived. These works, which reflect on Christ's death and resurrection, often contain deeply emotional and powerful music. Telemann's Das Selige Erwägen is rarely performed or recorded and little is known of it's genesis. It is unique in that it is comprised of a succession of meditations instead of merely setting the story to music. This superb recording by the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Gottfried von der Goltz features the soulful sound of the chalumeau, an ancestor of the clarinet.