Christoph Graupner wrote over 1,400 sacred cantatas. So there’s a lot to choose from — even for an album of just Easter cantatas. Christian Bonath has done a superb job programming a set of Holy Week cantatas that span decades of Graupner’s output. And each one receives a recording world premiere. Just to run down […]
Sebastian Hubner
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Christmas in Leipzig traces tradition of excellence
This album is about tradition. It’s a live recording of the Christmas concert held in Thomaskirche, Leipzig – a long-running tradition. It features three cantatas based on the traditional Lutheran chorale, Von Himmel Hoch The works were composed by three Cantors of Thomaskirche, illustrating the evolution of German choral composition. These were also the three […]