Kuhnau: Cantatas & Arias For Soprano

 
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JOHANN KUHNAU
Kuhnau: Cantatas & Arias For Soprano
Barbara Christina Steude (soprano) concerto con voce, Jan Katzschke (direction)

[ CPO / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 10 January 2011

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Johann Kuhnau owes his fame today mainly to the fact that he was Bach's predecessor as cantor at St. Thomas's in Leipzig. The 17th and 18th centuries meet in Kuhnau's cantatas, where a heavily text-bound musical language following on from the Schütz tradition is combined with Italian melodies and a late-baroque spaciousness - a combination especially delightful to today's ears. Rounding off the CD are cantatas by Kuhnau's close friend Vincenzo Albrici.