Even in the 18th c. life in university towns offered many temptations, distracting students from their studies, though certainly music ranked among the more harmless diversions. Evidently, teems of students were particularly drawn to sacred services in Leipzig but also, after 1701 to Telemann's Collegium musicum. This CD, performed by L'arpa festante and Rien Voskuilen, gives an admirable impression of the high level of musical quality accessible in Leipzig during a time when Telemann, Heinichen and Graupner were making music there and presumably studying law "on the side."
