"Text and music merge in a very catchy way And music, and with a relaxed gesture the composer succeeds in Composer manages to create individual pieces full of character and expression and expressive individual pieces Bach interpreter Mertens takes on the music with a slender with a slender, supple voice, shines above all through the the perfect balance of the registers, with a constant between discreetness and power, he interprets the texts he interprets the texts clearly, sets caesurae, interrupts the musical lines following the text - yet nothing seems yet nothing seems overloaded, even the cleverly placed Ornamentation are always appropriate." •klassik.com 06/06
Works:
•Telemann: Lieder (47) after poems by Stoppe, Canitz, Richey, Philander von der Linde, Brockes, von Hagedorn, Weise, Gottsched
• Telemann: Singe-, Spiel- und Generalbass-Übungen