Kirchheimer BachConsort & Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch - Gott der Herr ist Sonne und Schild (2018)
Classical, Opera | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 401 MB
Label: CPO | Tracks: 35 | Time: 92:10 min
The uncommonly productive Christoph Graupner composed the five Epiphany cantatas selected for this recording between 1730 and December 1753, when he was no longer practicing the art of opera composition. The author of the texts, Graupners brother-in-law Johann Conrad Lichtenberg, was a Darmstadt pastor and Lutheran superintendent and between 1719 and 1743 wrote some 1,500 cantata texts for the composers highly imaginative settings.