Classical Music

The opening chorus of the cantata Christus, der ist mein Leben BWV 95, composed for the 16th Sunday after Trinity in 1723, is unique in Bach's oeuvre, with two different chorales interrupted by a teno...

Kantate zum 18. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto, Trb], Blfl f2, Fl, 2 Ob, (Vl pic), Str, Org

The hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" is used three times as the opening movement of a Bach cantata: BWV 98-100. While BWV 99 and 100 are choral cantatas, the cantata for the 21st Sunday after Tr...

Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, Obda, Str, Org

Bestimmung unbekannt. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor (2 Tr), Timp, Fl, Obda, Str, Org

Kantate zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto, 3 Trb], Fl, 2 Ob, Obca (Tl), Vl solo, Str, Org

In 1726, Johann Sebastian Bach performed a series of cantatas by his Meiningen cousin Johann Ludwig, then continued this series with his own works, but remained faithful to his cousin's text: a Meinin...

The cantata "Ihr werdet weinen und heulen" BWV 103 for Sunday Jubilate is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

The shepherd music so popular in the Baroque period characterizes the cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre BWV 104: two oboes, waist, triplets, dots and organ dots in the opening chorus, oboes d'amore in the...

During Bach's first months in Leipzig, he composed the cantata "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht" BWV 105 for the 9th Sunday after Trinity (25.7.1723). The opening chorus, based on two m...

The "Actus tragicus" or "God's time is the very best time" BWV 106 is one of Bach's best-known and most appreciated works with an unbroken resonance to this day - a "work of genius that even great mas...

The cantata "Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe" BWV 108 for Sunday Cantate is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his secon...

Kantate zum 3. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Str, Org

The cantata "Der Herr ist mein Hirte" dates from 1731 and was evidently intended as a supplement to the choral cantata cycle, which Bach left unfinished at Easter 1725. Bach adopted the five-stanza po...

Kantate zum 17. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, 2 Ob, Str, Org

Kantate zum 25. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Obda, 2 Vl, Va, Cor, Bc

Destination unknownThe cantata "Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut" BWV 117 belongs to a smaller group of Bach's choral cantatas which are based solely on the text of the song, including the three recit...

Survived in two versions: 1st version composed in 1736/37, 2nd version in the first half of the 1740s. Differences only in the instrumentation; both versions have been integrated in this edition. Joha...

Bach's first Leipzig council election cantata, composed in August 1723, is also his most magnificently scored cantata of the Leipzig period. The choice of a festive orchestral instrumentation fits the...

The cantata "Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille" BWV 120 became particularly well-known due to its second movement, which was reused in the Credo of the Mass in B minor. The cantata is one of the six...

Kantate - Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Fl, Ob, [Cor], 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org

The cantata BWV 127 belongs to the year of choral cantatas that Bach performed in Leipzig in 1724/25. It is closely related to the "St. John Passion", which was performed in its second version on Good...

After the end of the chorale cantata year at the end of March 1725, Bach set a series of cantata texts by the Leipzig poet Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, who ran one of the first literary-musical sal...

The cantata "Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott" BWV 129 is one of the choral cantatas that Bach subsequently added to the choral cantata cycle that was discontinued at Easter 1725; it was not composed u...

Like all cantatas for St. Michael's Day, the choral cantata "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" BWV 130 from 1724 is an exceptionally magnificent composition. The three trumpets and timpani are not only...