Classical Music

The cantata Liebster Gott, wenn wird ich sterben belongs in its original form BWV 8.1 to Bach's choral cantata cycle of 1724/25 and was first performed on the 16th Sunday after Trinity (September 24,...

Kantate für den 6. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Fl, Obda, 2 Vl, Va, Bc.

Bach created a special kind of choral cantata for the Feast of the Visitation (July 2, 1724): It is not based on a Protestant hymn, but on a Gregorian chorale (9th psalm tone). The German Magnificat -...

On March 2, 1714, Johann Sebastian Bach, who had previously worked as a chamber musician and organist at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst in Weimar, was promoted to concertmaster and commissioned to co...

Bach's cantata BWV 13 (from the third Leipzig cantata cycle) was first performed on the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany in 1726. The work is characterized in particular by the unusual scoring for Bach's chu...

Kantate zum 14. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Str, Org

The cantata dates from Bach's Weimar period. The instrumental scoring with four violas and basso continuo, to which two recorders led at octave intervals to viola I and II are added in a Leipzig perfo...

Kantate zum Michaelistag. Soli STB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Ob, Taille, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Bc

The cantata O Ewigkeit, o Donnerwort BWV 20 for the 1st Sunday after Trinity 1724 marks the beginning of Bach's second Leipzig year, which will go down in history as the choral cantata year and is gen...

The present edition allows the cantata to be performed in the various scorings used by Bach. In the scoring indications for the solo parts for high voice, Bach's assignment in Leipzig is given first,...

The cantata "Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe" was performed together with BWV 23 on Sunday Estomihi 1723 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantorate rehearsal. Both cantatas were later repeated as part...

The cantata Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn was performed together with BWV 22 on Sunday Estomihi 1723 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantorate rehearsal. Both cantatas were later repeated as part...

At the heart of Cantata 24 is a powerful and magnificent choral movement based on the Bible text "All things therefore, whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them", symmetric...

The cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity (August 1723) is from Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle. The opening chorus, which is unique in Bach's cantata oeuvre, is particularly noteworthy: Bach h...

Kantate zum 16. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], 2 Ob/1 Obca, Str, Org obl. - Tonart c-dorisch

The Leipzig council election cantata "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir" from 1731 is one of Bach's cantatas in which the organ is given an obbligato role. In the introductory Sinfonia (an arrangem...

The cantata Freue dich, erlöste Schar BWV 30 is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's last church cantatas. Originally composed as a parody of the cantata Angenehmes Wiederau BWV 30a for the Feast of St. Joh...

The starting point of the text is the Easter Gospel with the resurrection of Jesus, which is first celebrated extensively. This is followed by an appeal to the faithful: Every single Christian must ta...

The text of the cantata "Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen" for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany in 1726 was written by the Darmstadt poet Georg Christian Lehms. The text is designed as a dialog between Jesu...

Kantate zum 13. Sonntag nach Trinitatis

Lyricist possibly Christian Weiß the Elder. The edition contains a reconstructed violin solo part for the tenor aria no. 2 by Dürr and Hellmann

The 1st Sunday after Trinity marks the beginning of the school year in Leipzig and therefore the start of a new cantata year for the Thomaskantor - completely against contemporary tradition. This also...

Kantate zu Neujahr - Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Vcpic, 3 Tr, Bc, Timp

Instead of an opening chorus, the cantata BWV 42 begins with a magnificent sinfonia in the style of the 'Brandenburg Concertos'. Bach may have taken this movement from an earlier concerto. The first a...

The genesis of the cantata Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten BWV 59 is somewhat enigmatic. The surviving parts attest to a performance on 1 Whitsun 1724, but the score was written well before...