Haydn's three English Songs are chosen from two sets of English Canzonettas, published in London in 1794/95, which were vastly popular in the drawing rooms of Haydn‘s audience.
   „Arianna à Naxos“ was a great musical hit in London in 1791 and achieved wide popularity all over the continent. The London Morning Chronicle of February 23 noted: „The Musical World is at this moment enraptured with a Composition which Haydn has brought forth… Nothing is talked of – nothing sought after but Haydn‘s Cantata… It abounds with such a variety of dramatic modulations – and is so exquisitely captivating in its larmoyant passages, that it touched and dissolved the audience… Haydn‘s Cantata will accordingly be the musical desideratum of the winter.“

Soprano Maike Albrecht and harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor from Lubeck, Germany join baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata Ich habe genug and other works

The church cantata Ich habe genug ("I am content"), BWV 82 was composed in Leipzig in 1727 for the feast Purification of Mary and is one of the most often performed and recorded of Bach's sacred cantatas. In this cantata, based on the Song of Simeon, Bach projects a feeling of serene contentedness with life and an expression of the experience of body and soul coming to rest and in complete harmony beyond anything that words alone can convey.