David Erler

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

Kuhnau’s setting of the 98th psalm Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied is a sonorous cantata with the opulent scoring of two trumpets, timpani and a five-part string section. This baroque gem radiates a s...

Kuhnau’s setting of the 98th psalm Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied is a sonorous cantata with the opulent scoring of two trumpets, timpani and a five-part string section. This baroque gem radiates a s...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

Johann Kuhnaus überliefertes Vokalwerk wird den Katalog von Breitkopf & Härtel in den kommenden Jahren vollständig ergänzen. In der Regel sprechen wir dabei con Kantaten, zumindest jedoch von Werken m...

Die Kantate 'Daran erkennen wir, dass wir in Ihm bleiben' ist für den ersten Pfingstfeiertag bestimmt. Ihr liegt ein Text von Johann Christoph Wentzel (1659-1723) zugrunde. Wentzel stammte aus Unterel...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

Kuhnau’s setting of the 98th psalm Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied is a sonorous cantata with the opulent scoring of two trumpets, timpani and a five-part string section. This baroque gem radiates a s...

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

The cantata O heilige Zeit [O Holy Time] of the former St. Thomas cantor Johann Kuhnau is the ideal baroque festive music for small scorings. Even though this is the larger of two cantatas with this t...

The cantata O heilige Zeit [O Holy Time] of the former St. Thomas cantor Johann Kuhnau is the ideal baroque festive music for small scorings. Even though this is the larger of two cantatas with this t...

The cantata Schmücket das Fest mit Maien has survived without any information about the time of its composition, its purpose, or its scoring. The librettist is also unknown, although there is a compar...

This cantata is a composition by Kuhnau for the first of the Christmas holidays [Christmas Day] and one of his most extensive works. It is underlaid with the free poetry of a hitherto anonymous author...

Die Kantate 'Daran erkennen wir, dass wir in Ihm bleiben' ist für den ersten Pfingstfeiertag bestimmt. Ihr liegt ein Text von Johann Christoph Wentzel (1659-1723) zugrunde. Wentzel stammte aus Unterel...

Die Kantate Es steh Gott auf ist für das Osterfest bestimmt. Die Entstehungszeit kann nicht exakt ermittelt werden. Sie lässt sich jedoch aufgrund einiger Indizien zumindest zeitlich eingrenzen. Wicht...

The cantata Christ lag in Todes-Banden is a mixed chorale cantata that sets the first and last verses of the corresponding Luther chorale verbatim, but the other movements in free poetry based on the...