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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 zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Cor, Obda, Str, Org

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

Soli ATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Tr, 2 Vl, Va, Bc Sprache: deutsch/englisch

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...

The cantata "Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir" is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions. It was composed in Mühlhausen in 1707 and does not yet have the elaborate arias and choral movements o...

The cantata is one of the few cantatas by Bach with an original date. Salomon Franck's composition is closely linked to the Gospel reading from John 1:19-28, which deals with the testimony of John the...

The cantata "Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß" for the 3rd Easter in 1724 is one of the older cantatas that Bach integrated into his first Leipzig cantata cycle; it was originally composed in Kö...

Bach composed BWV 153 as the fourth cantata in the second Leipzig cantata cycle, the so-called "choral cantata cycle". The hymn "Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder", written in the 16th century to the melody...

The three-verse hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" was written by Philipp Nicolai and first appears in his "Freudenspiegel des ewigen Lebens". The poet of the other text sections of the cantata is...

New edition of the New Year's cantata, previously only published from 19th century copies, based on a manuscript from 1762 which only became known in 1971; with a considerably different and improved t...

A motetic choral movement without obbligato instruments opens the cantata Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin zum Sonntag Septuagesima 1724. This is followed by an almost dance-like, song-like aria "Murr...

The sources show that Bach's cantata was intended for the Sunday of Jubilate. The text, whose composer is still unknown today, is based on the juxtaposition of sadness and joy in the Gospel for this S...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) in 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually in...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually by add...

The cantata Bring Glory to the Lord in His Name BWV 148 was probably composed for the 17th Sunday after Trinity in 1723; due to the scanty tradition, which only began after Bach's death, the cantata c...

When composing the cantata BWV 149, Bach drew on parts of an older work: the opening chorus is a parody of the hunting cantata BWV 208. In addition to minor changes to the text, he used trumpets inste...

The cantata "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" BWV 150 is one of Bach's earliest cantatas from his Mühlhausen period. For a long time, its authenticity was disputed, a fact which was not only due to the...

Reconstruction of the original version (Klaus Hofmann); composition period unknown