Künft’ger Zeiten eitler Kummer HWV202 serenely expresses contentment with the life bestowed upon us by the Creator. It is the only poem not featured in Brockes’s first 1721 edition, and thus confirms that Handel knew and worked from the revised 1724 publication. Handel’s setting has traces of his Italian cantatas
Sei pur bella, pur vezzosa (HWV160c) and
Siete rose ruggiadose (HWV162), but, more closely, an aria ‘Questo core incatenato’ discarded from the first draft of
Giulio Cesare.
from notes by David Vickers © 2007
Menuhin Hall, Yehudi Menuhin School, Stoke d'Abernon, Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom
