It was Christoph Graupner who was selected as the Thomaskantor in
Leipzig after Johannes Kuhnau, and it was only the fact that Graupners
patron in Darmstadt did not let him go that Johann Sebastian Bach got
the job! In fact Graupner was the more famous and more modern composer
during those years, yet history almost forgot him for more than two
centuries even having composed five times as many cantatas as Bach. An
important and highly praised step in the re-discovery or Graupners music
was already presented by the soprano Miriam Feuersinger and her ECHO
Klassik awarded debut release on Christophorus together with the
Capricornus Consort Basel. She is now joined by countertenor Franz Vitzthum for a new album of duo cantatas. This is music of great depth,
with the two voices blending so well that sometimes they seem just one.
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