{"product_id":"graun-a-gentle-tenor","title":"Graun: A Gentle Tenor","description":"Carl Heinrich Graun is known as Frederick the Great's court Kapellmeister, but less well known is the fact that Graun enjoyed an important reputation as a singer and that the king had originally engaged him as such at his court. In his obituary, the king characteristically honoured his court Kapellmeister with the words: \"We will not hear such a singer again\"! Graun's voice is characterised as a \"high tenor\" with \"great lightness\" and, according to a contemporary, he sang the slow pieces in particular \"very gently and touchingly\". Aco Biscevic probably corresponds exactly to this voice type: as a \"haute-contre\" (a tenor with a very high, light voice), his vocal range lies between tenor and the falsetto countertenor. Graun composed the three secular cantatas presented on this recording as a world premiere for himself and his voice during his time in Wolfenbuttel. Biscevic is accompanied by the baroque orchestra of the Thuringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach under the direction of Michael Hofstetter, an expert in the discovery of young voices (think of Valer Sabadus or Samuel Marino).","brand":"Accent","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49607705166104,"sku":"4015023244047","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4338986-3184689.jpg?v=1777516761","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/graun-a-gentle-tenor","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}