Sacred Music

Kantate zum 1. Ostertag (Weimarer und Leipziger Fassung). Sopran solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SSATB, 1 (3) Ob, (Englischhorn, Fagott), Trompete (3), Pauke, Streicher, Basso continuo

Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata "Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret" BWV 31 was composed in Weimar for the Sunday of April 21, 1715. The text by Salomon Franck is closely linked to the Easter Gospe...

Bachs Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Trinitatis, erstmals aufgeführt im Jahr 1726, gehört zu den musikalisch reizvollsten Kompositionen des Thomaskantors. Der opulent angelegte Eingangschor veranschaulic...

Bach's cantata for the 1st Sunday after Trinity, first performed in 1726, is one of the Thomas cantor's most musically appealing compositions. The opulent opening chorus programmatically illustrates t...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous “Kreuzstab Cantata” BWV 56 (“Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen”) is one of the most moving solo cantatas in the history of sacred music. Composed for the 19th Sunday a...

Cantata 56, also known as the "Kreuzstab Cantata", was composed in 1726 for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and is scored relatively lightly for oboes, English horn, strings and continuo. As its text al...

Kantate zum 2. Pfingsttag. Urtetxt der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Sopran solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe (2), Horn, Trompete/ Zink, Posaune (3), Streicher, Basso continuo

The cantata Jesu, der du meine Seele belongs to the famous series of choral cantatas that Bach composed in his second year in Leipzig. It was probably performed for the first time in one of Leipzig's...

No original sources have survived for Bach's great Reformation cantata "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott". It is possible that the original version of the cantata was composed in Weimar in 1715, which Ba...

As neither original sources nor documents relating to the first performance of the present funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV 106 have survived, we cannot prove the year of compos...

Kantate zum Michaelisfest (deutsch/englisch), nach dem Urtext der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Flöte, Oboe (3), Trompete (3), Streicher, Bass...

Bach's cantata, "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir", composed on September 29, 1724, belongs to the group of choral cantatas which, like perhaps the respective preacher, interpret the ideas of the readin...

Kantate zum 4. Adventssonntag. Urtext der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe, Fagott, Streicher, Basso continuo

Urtext der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Alt solo, Tenor Solo, gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe (2), Fag.Str, Basso continuo

Die Entstehung der Kantate 'Lobe den Herrn meine Seele' BWV 143 liegt weitgehend im Dunkeln. Als einzige Quelle galt lange Zeit eine Abschrift aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Diese lag auch dem Notentext der...

The origins of the cantata Lobe den Herrn meine Seele BWV 143 are largely unknown. For a long time, a copy from the 19th century was considered the only source. This was also the basis for the musical...

Cantata for the Feast of the Visitation, after the Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Soprano solo, Alto solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Mixed choir, Oboe (2), Oboe d'amore, Oboe-dacc (2), Bassoon, Trumpet,...

Kantate zum 3. Ostertag, nach dem Urtext der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe, Violine/ Flöte, Basso continuo

Kantate zum Sonntag Cantate, nach dem Urtext der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe, Streicher, Basso continuo

Urtext der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe, Fagott, Trompete (3), Pauke, Streicher, Basso continuo

Kantate zum 3. Pfingsttag (deutsch/englisch), nach dem Urtext der Neuen Bach-Ausgabe. Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Alt-Blockflöte in f,g (3), Trp.Str (2), Basso continuo

The anthem "How beautiful are the feet", also known as "Anthem on the Peace", was premiered in 1749 by the Chapel Royal in London at a thanksgiving service on the occasion of the Peace of Aachen, whic...

The anthem "How beautiful are the feet", also known as "Anthem on the Peace", was premiered in 1749 by the Chapel Royal in London at a thanksgiving service on the occasion of the Peace of Aachen, whic...

George Frideric Handel's anthem "Blessed are they that considereth the poor" was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and is known by this name. The vocal...

George Frideric Handel's anthem "Blessed are they that considereth the poor" was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and is known by this name. The vocal...