This cantata contains so much more than 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' - but it's a great way in to this religious piece from 1723. Bach was a busy composer in his post at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, ...
Montréal’s blend of New World freedom and Old World substance permeates the uninhibited, spontaneous music-making in this joyful Bach Cantatas release. The use of one voice per part, easily dismissed ...
From two initial releases on Virgin Classics in the early 1990s, a dozen or so since for Harmonia Mundi and recently a handful on PHI, Philippe Herreweghe’s programming of individual Bach cantatas has ...
Two Weimar-period cantatas are presented in their revised Leipzig versions, prepared during Bach’s first few months at the Thomaskirche. Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (Third Sunday after Trinity, 1714) ...
Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...
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Cantata Singers' 53rd season opens on Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 8pm in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall with J.S. Bach's intricate Cantata 109, radiant Cantata 147, and the U.S. premiere of ...
Ton Koopman leads members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and chorus in a chorale from Bach's Cantata No. 147, "Jesus, bleibet meine fruede." ...
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