As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...
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 ...
Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...
“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...
When I last reviewed a CD of the ongoing survey of Bach’s cantatas by St. Gallen’s Bach Foundation or Bachstiftung, volume 13 in that series was the hook to talk about the merits of the project in ...
Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City's foremost period instrument orchestra, in a program of much-loved Bach cantatas at the ...
Bach’s surviving Easter cantatas, which date from 1707 to the late 1720s, provide the perfect point of entry for anyone unfamiliar with the composer’s works for the church year. Top marks to Challenge ...
An epic race is almost over in the fiercely competitive world of classical music. The runners are three giants of the business: a British conductor, a celebrated Dutch harpsichord player and a church ...
JS Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein’ will be on display until 2025 Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the original manuscript of JS Bach’s ...
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