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Bach chose an unconventional beginning for his nine-movement cantata 'Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind' BWV 153, which he composed in his first year as Kantor of St. Thomas's for the Sunday after N...

'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....

The cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity Ach, ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe BWV 162 was first performed on October 25, 1716 in Weimar's Schlosskirche. Bach performed the cantata again...

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...

The cantata 'Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe' (You mortals, tell of God's devotion) BWV 167 is one of the first works which Bach wrote in his capacity as Kantor of St. Thomas's Leipzig. It was compo...

The cantata Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ begins with an expansive chorale arrangement, for which Bach drew on a tried and tested pattern: the chorale is performed by the four-part vocal ensemble,...

The cantata "Himmelskönig, sei willkommen" BWV 182 occupies a special place in Johann Sebastian Bach's life story. Active as an organist and chamber musician at the Weimar court since 1708, he was app...

Bach was not able to use the Weimar Advent cantata 'Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht' BWV 186a in Leipzig, as there was no performance of church music there between the 1st Sunday of Advent and Christmas. B...

The cantata 'Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht' (Fret thee not, thou mortal soul) BWV 186 is in a sense the companion work to the much better-known cantata 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV 147. Both wer...

The two-part cantata from Bach's third cycle of cantatas was performed for the first time on 4 August 1726 (the 7th Sunday after Trinity). The large-scale opening chorus for full forces to a text from...

The cantata 'Ich habe meine Zuversicht' BWV 188 comes from the so-called 'Picander cycle' and was written for the 21st Sunday after Trinity in 1728 or 1729. There are some particular problems associat...

The cantata 'Nun danket alle Gott' (Now thank we all our God) BWV 192 is based on the text of the well-known hymn. It is therefore one of a small number of chorale cantatas which contain no free poeti...

The cantata "Der Herr denket an uns" BWV 196 has a special charm due to its early date of composition, penned by the just 22-year-old Bach, and its brevity and simple scoring make it easy to perform e...

Bach's solo soprano cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut was composed in the summer of 1714 for the Weimar court service on the 11th Sunday after Trinity. The cantata poem by the Darmstadt court poet G...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 (Carus 31.080/00) is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most frequently performed cantatas. However, the well-known form with the large opening chorale represents the...

The Missa in g is the only surviving work in this genre by Johann Hugo von Wilderer, whose work as Kapellmeister at the Electoral Palatinate court, which had resided in Mannheim since 1720, was mainly...

The representative Latin psalm composition "Deus, judicium tuum" (Ps. 71/72) is one of the best from Telemann's pen. Its composition is linked to his eight-month trip to Paris in the fall of 1737, dur...

Great Baroque church music full of color and powerful imagery! 'Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing, rejoice and praise his holy name with the trumpets and cornetts! And nature shall join in, the seas s...

The office as a priest and the long years as musical director of the Ospedale della Pietà (a large orphonage in Venice) both occasioned and inspired him to compose church music in large variety. The M...

With "Dixit Dominus" (Ps 109 [110]) and "Beatus vir" (Ps 111 [112]), two of Vivaldi's most important double-choir church compositions are available in new critical editions. With the vocal-instrumenta...

The two Magnificat compositions (C major, ZWV 107; D major, ZWV 108) are part of Zelenka's collection of well over 30 psalm and Magnificat settings for the Dresden Vespers services. In contrast to the...

The new Carus edition of this sonorous work, characterized by the Italian style, contains for the first time the Choral Fugue No. 6, which can be found in Mendelssohn's autograph and was also performe...