Florian Heyerick, Ex Tempore, Mannheimer Hofkapelle - Christoph Graupner: Ein Weihnachtsoratorium (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 605 Mb | Total time: 136:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC307 | Recorded: 2009, 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 605 Mb | Total time: 136:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC307 | Recorded: 2009, 2010
Director of music to the Darmstadt court, Graupner's output almost equalled that of Telemann and certainly surpassed that of J.S. Bach: he composed a number of operas, many concertos and orchestral suites, chamber music, keyboard works and more than 1400 church cantatas. Almost the entire body of Graupner’s work has survived in autograph but hardly any of his compositions were published during his lifetime or afterwards. Fortunately they were not burnt after his death as he himself wished, but were the subject of a legal dispute between the landgrave and Graupner’s heirs. Thanks to this the complete archive was taken to a place outside the city and thus spared a second burning, as very little of the old city of Darmstadt would be spared during the Second World War.