The young musicians will study the intricacies of historical performance on the basis of Georg Philipp Telemann’s cantata. The composer himself would have gladly participated in the course organized during Wratislavia Cantans, as his road to musical education was uphill and arduous.  
His mother wanted him to choose a more lucrative profession. She did not see his future in music, so she requisitioned all his instruments. Unconvinced even by her son’s opera composed at the age of ten, she finally sent him to a boarding school where, paradoxically, she could no longer control him. The school principal recognized the little Georg’s talent and let him play. In gymnasium, Georg Philipp was already a self-taught instrumentalist. And yet he chose law as his major subject at Leipzig University. 
The course, organized by Wrocław Music Academy since 1976, every year concludes with a Wratislavia Cantans concert performed by the young participants. The workshop gives young talent an opportunity to study oratorio performance under the eye of world-class music experts. This year, alongside excellent singers, Australia’s Benjamin Bayl will run the workshop. He mastered his skills with John Eliot Gardiner, Ivan Fisher and Paul McCreesh. The Festival Orchestra and Choir under Bayl will perform Telemann’s cantata Tageszeiten. 
Each of the eponymous times of the day is presented in two arias divided by a recitative and complemented with a choral finale. The soprano and the trumpet wake up the sun, the noon is introduced by the alto and the viola da gamba, the tenor-flavoured evening gives us a cool respite in the shade, whereas a pair of flutes brings to mind an evening breeze, and the twilight descends upon a forest. The night, apparently dark with bass sounds, is illuminated with the warm colour of the bassoon and a pair of oboes.