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In addition to the Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, another representative work was composed for the festive season of the church year in 1734/35: the Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 ("Praise God in his riches")...

Kantate zum Pfingstfest (1. Pfingsttag) - Entstehungszeit der diesem Werk zugrundeliegenden Trauungskantate (BWV 34a) 1726, der Parodie in der ersten Hälfte der 1740er Jahre. Soli ATB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr...

The opening movement of Bach's choral cantata on Luther's "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir" BWV 38 for the 21st Sunday after Trinity in 1724 belongs to a group of cantatas whose opening chorus is not...

As part of his third Leipzig cantata cycle, Bach performed the Ascension cantata "Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen" on May 30, 1726. Its text is included in the collection "Sonn- und Fest-Tags-Andachten ü...

The cantata BWV 44 from Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle, the earlier of two compositions of the same name, was probably first performed on Sunday Exaudi in May 1724. The text deals with the themes...

The opening chorus of the cantata "Schauet doch und sehet" BWV 46 is one of those movements by Bach that is primarily known in its later guise: its first part became the "Qui tollis" of the Mass in B...

The cantata "Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden" BWV 47 for the 17th Sunday after Trinity belongs to a whole series of cantatas with obbligato organ, most of which were composed in t...

The cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity belongs to Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle and was performed for the first time on October 3, 1723. The text by an unknown poet is based on the Sunday...

Reconstruction of the presumed original version by Reinhold Kubik

It only became apparent a few years ago that the text of the soprano cantata 'Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht'' came from the collection Gott-geheiligten Sabbaths-Zehnden by the Leipzig theology stud...

Kantate zum 2. Pfingsttag. Soli SB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Taille (Eh), Zk (Tr), 3 Trb, 2 Vl, Va, (Vc pic), Org

Bach's Cantata BWV 69a of 1723, which has remained largely unknown to the present day, is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication. It has been unjustly negl...

Actus tragicus. Trauermusik (Fassung in F) - Kompositionsanlass unbekannt (evtl. zum Tod von Bachs Onkel Tobias Lämmerhirt am 10.8.1707). Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Blfl f1, 2 Vga, Org

Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtsfeiertag. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Fl, Ob, Obda, Obca, Str, Org - Tonart D-Dur / h-Moll

Zu besonderer Bekanntheit gelangte die Kantate 'Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille' BWV 120 durch ihren zweiten Satz, der im Credo der h-Moll-Messe wiederverwendet wurde. Die Kantate ist eine der sech...

This six-movement chorale cantata was first performed on 26 December 1724. The text is based on the Lutheran translation of the early Christian hymn A solis ortus cardinem. The outer movements frame t...

This six-movement cantata uses the hymn of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch, first recorded in 1698 in the Darmstädter Liederbuch. This places it amongst those chorale cantatas which use a hymn from...

The cantata Ich freue mich in dir was performed for the first time in Bach's second year in office, on Christmas Day 1724, and is part of the so-called choral cantata cycle. At the heart of the compos...

Although 'Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz' (What is it troubles thee, my heart) BWV 138 is based on the chorale of the same name, it is nevertheless not regarded as one of Bach's chorale cantatas. I...

Bach's chorale cantata with its opening text 'Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott recht kindlich kann verlassen' (Tis well with him who on the Lord trusts just like a child) BWV 139 was performed for t...

The cantata 'Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren' BWV 154 was first performed on 9 January 1724, the 1st Sunday after Epiphany. The structure and extent of the work are unusual: it comprises eight, inste...

'Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe' (I stand with my open grave before me) BWV 156 is one of the few surviving cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach that is based on texts from the so-called Picander cycle....

Kantate am Fest Mariae Reinigung, oder am dritten Osterfesttag - möglicherweise während der Weimarer Zeit (1708-1717) komponiert. Soli SB, Coro SATB, Ob, Vl solo, Vc/Cb, Org - Tonart D-Dur / e-Moll

This six-movement cantata BWV 164 was performed for the first time on 26 August 1725 in Leipzig. The text was written by Bach's Weimar cantata poet Salomon Franck and had been published earlier in 171...

The cantata 'O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad'' (O Holy spirit's solemn rite) BWV 165 is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions and was presumably first performed in the Weimar Schlosskirche for Tr...