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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...

The cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben BWV 109, composed for the 21st Sunday after Trinity in 1723, is characterized as a dialogue between unbelief and faith: While the dense openi...

Bring festive splendor to your Christmas season with Johann Sebastian Bach's magnificent cantata "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens" BWV 110. Composed for Christmas Day, this uplifting work radiates pure jo...

Immerse yourself in the profound musical world of Johann Sebastian Bach: With the cantata "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" (BWV 111), the master created a deeply moving work filled with solac...

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

Immerse yourself in the profound musical world of Johann Sebastian Bach: With the evocative cantata "Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit" (BWV 115) for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity, Bach created a masterp...

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...

The cantus firmus is present in four of the six movements, giving the cantata great unity. In addition to the opening chorus and final chorale, it is heard in one of the rare tercets in Bach's vocal w...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata "Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht" (BWV 124), composed for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany, is one of the most intimate and moving works by the Leipzig master. Based on the we...

Immerse yourself in one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most moving sacred vocal works: the cantata "Mit Fried und Freud fahr ich dahin" (BWV 125), composed for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin...

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...

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...