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Experienced organists in particular will enjoy this Bach cantata: A concerto by Bach, which has been lost in its original form and which he arranged for organ, is concealed in the opening movements of...

The soprano cantata "Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht" by Johann Sebastian Bach is intended for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on November 24, 1726 in the year of its first performance. It...

The first version of the Reformation cantata "Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott" BWV 80b, published for the first time in a practical edition by Carus-Verlag, remained unknown to Bach scholars until well...

The six-movement cantata is based on the song of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch, which was first recorded in the Darmstadt songbook in 1698. It is therefore one of the choral cantatas that use a h...

Thanks to its popular choral text, Bach's choral cantata "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren" BWV 137 has long been one of the St. Thomas cantor's most frequently performed works. Unlike t...

Although "Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz" BWV 138 is based on the hymn of the same name, it is not one of Bach's chorale cantatas. In this unusual composition from Bach's first year, further choral...

Bach's choral cantata with the opening text "Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott recht kindlich verlassen kann" BWV 139 was performed for the first time on November 12, 1724 at the main church service...

Bach chose an unconventional beginning for the nine-movement cantata "Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind" BWV 153, which he composed for the Sunday after New Year in 1724, his first year in office as...

The cantata "Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren" BWV 154 was performed for the first time on January 9, 1724, the 1st Sunday after Epiphany. The structure and length of the work are unusual: it comprise...

Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe BWV 156 is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's few surviving cantatas on texts from what is known as the Picander period. As in several other cantatas on texts by this poet,...

The six-movement cantata BWV 164 was first performed in Leipzig on August 26, 1725. The text was written by Bach's Weimar cantata composer Salomon Franck and appeared in his collection "Evangelisches...

The cantata "O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad" BWV 165 is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions and was probably first performed for the Feast of the Holy Trinity in 1715 in Weimar's Schlosskirche...

The cantata "Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe" BWV 167 is one of the first works that Bach wrote as Leipzig's Thomaskantor. The cantata is intended for the Feast of St. John and was first performed i...

The text for Bach's cantata "Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort" was published in Salomon Frank's "Evangelische Andachts-Opffer" as early as 1715, during Bach's time in Weimar. However, the concise but forceful...

Bach's cantata "Gott soll allein mein Herze haben" BWV 169 comes from the third Leipzig cantata cycle; it was first performed on October 20, 1726 on the 18th Sunday after Trinity. Recent research has...

The cantata "Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht" BWV 186 is to a certain extent the sister work of the much better-known cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147. Both were composed in Advent 1716 as...

The two-part cantata from Bach's 3rd cantata cycle was first performed on August 4, 1726 (the 7th Sunday after Trinity). The large-scale, fully scored opening chorus to a text from Psalm 104 shows Bac...

The cantata "Ich habe meine Zuversicht" BWV 188 belongs to the so-called "Picander year" and was intended for the 21st Sunday after Trinity in 1728 or 1729. The cantata has a particular problem with i...

The text of the cantata "Nun danket alle Gott" BWV 192 is based solely on the well-known hymn. It is therefore one of the few choral cantatas that do not contain any other free poetic texts. According...

The cantata "Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest" BWV 194 was composed on the occasion of the organ dedication in Störmthal on November 2, 1723. One year later and with only minor changes, the cantata was p...

Gott ist unsre Zuversicht BWV 197 was probably composed in the second half of the 1730s for an unknown wedding ceremony and features an impressive orchestra, especially in the opening chorus. The text...

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat" BWV 243 was composed in its first form in E flat at the very beginning of Bach's Leipzig tenure, possibly for the Visitation of Mary on July 2, 1723. A performance...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, including in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this vesper psalm has some special features: The work is...

The Missa Sancti Josephi occupies a key position among Jan Dismas Zelenka's 20 or so large masses. In this mass, which was probably composed in 1732 for a saint's feast (therefore without a Credo), th...

Bruckner's great "Mass in F minor" is one of the composer's - and 19th century choral music's - most important works. In a unique way, the composer succeeds here in musically penetrating the contents...