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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...

With the moving cantata "Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende" (BWV 27), Johann Sebastian Bach created a poignant masterpiece for the 16th Sunday after Trinity. Set in the modal color of C Dorian, the wor...

The cantata "Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende" BWV 28 for the Sunday after Christmas begins unusually: with an aria instead of the usual opening chorus, characterized by joyful, dance-like rhythms i...

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...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach's magnificent cantata "Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" BWV 33 in a first-class edition by the renowned Carus-Verlag. Composed for the 13th Sunday after Trinity, this...

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...

Festive horn sounds open Bach's cantata Darzu ist erscheinen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40, first performed on 26.12.1723. The two inner chorales, which are inserted between the recitative and the correspond...

Celebrate the New Year with the festive splendor of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset" BWV 41. This masterful work combines jubilant praise with heartfelt prayers for blessings...

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...

The cantata's opening chorus is the first verse of the early church hymn "Veni redemptor gentium", which in Martin Luther's adaptation became the most important Advent hymn of the Protestant church. B...

Bach's second cantata beginning with the text "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" BWV 62 was performed on 1 Advent (the only Advent Sunday with church music in Leipzig at the time) in 1724 and belongs to t...

With its large orchestration, which was used chorally in accordance with older models, the cantata is a festive piece. In terms of its external splendor, it is at best equalled, but not surpassed, by...

The cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe BWV 64, composed for Christmas Day 1723, is characterized by the opening chorus in the "old style" without obbligato instruments. As with the cantata Darzu ist ersc...