Klaus Mertens:Accademia Dan - Graupner: Bass Cantatas

Christoph Graupner was a significant cantata composer when it came to magnificent and multifaceted musical display, the court of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt was equal in every way to widely acclaimed centers of musical activity such as Mannheim and Hamburg. The Darmstadt court ensemble music have operated on a high musical level. For five decades the court music director Christoph Graupner was the absolute monarch in this musical realm.