Graupner/ Capricornus Consort Basel - Duo CantatasIt was Christoph Graupner who was selected as the Thomaskantor in Leipzig after Johannes Kuhnau, and it was only the fact that Graupner's patron in Darmstadt did not let him go that Johann Sebastian Bach got the job! In fact Graupner was the more famous and more "modern" composer during those years, yet history almost forgot him for more than two centuries even having composed five times as many cantatas as Bach. An important and highly praised step

Antonio Lauro was

was in a position at that time to compose some of his major works

Wanda Jackson started her career in country music before embracing rock 'n' roll

Buck Owens and Merle Haggard

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things go off track almost immediately

All three of them had a particular penchant for the viola's dark and melancholy timbre: the viola could serve as the perfect musical correlate to the fin-de-siecle mood that had taken over the minds and hearts of so many artists

One of the most distinctive and celebrated names in modern Japanese cinema

full of musical laughter and mischief

Monk ingeniously managed to translate the Romantic 'midnight piece' into the sphere of expression of jazz

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is regarded to be the seventh member of the band