CARL HEINRICH GRAUN (1704–1759)
CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
Monika Mauch, soprano
Marion Eckstein, alto
Georg Poplutz, tenor
Raimund Nolte, bass
Arcis-Vocalisten
Barockensemble L’arpa festante
Thomas Gropper, conductor
Awork caught the attention of musicians
during the late 1990s – a Christmas
Oratorio by C.H. Graun. The only known
copy of it was being housed in the Library of Congress
in Washington, D.C. But it has so far been
impossible
to determine either the name of the
manuscript copyist or an exact dating of the work
and copy. There are many indications that this is a
work from the composer’s phase prior to his years
in Berlin. After The Death of Jesus, Thomas Gropper
and his Arcis Vocalists now proudly present
the second oratorio of Graun as a CD production
for OehmsClassics.