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Where do you live with trust? where is the best world Georg Pilipp Telemann asks this in his cantata "Die Landlust". The nature-loving life in the country in contrast to the big city or life at the princely court was a popular theme in operas, musical comedies and cantatas as early as the Baroque period. The composer Telemann had a large garden just outside the city of Hamburg and exchanged ideas with Handel about flowers and plants. In "Moral Cantatas" or texts by the German poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes, many musicians dealt with the meaning of their time. Handel's extremely famous “Nine German Arias” still give us a resounding testimony to these ideas today. Even in the present we are discussing alternative life models in view of climate change, coal phase-out and renewable energies. Together with the soprano Johanna Kaldewei, the lautten compagney dares to take a look at history with baroque music, intended to stimulate reflection on the future.