Mixed Choir with Piano

Bach's cantata BWV 151, whose wonderfully intimate opening aria is rightly considered one of Bach's "happiest inspirations" (Alfred Dürr), was composed for Christmas Day 1725. The flute and oboe d'amo...

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

The text of the cantata "Seht, wir gehen hinauf gen Jerusalem" was probably first performed in 1729; this would make it the last cantata that Bach performed before the St. Matthew Passion was performe...

The cantata was probably first performed on September 27, 1716, the 16th Sunday after Trinity Sunday, in Weimar's Schlosskirche. The text comes from the cantata volume "Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer"...

The Whitsun cantata Erschallet ihr Lieder was composed for the first Whitsun holiday in 1714 and was performed several times in Leipzig in slightly different versions. Performances in 1724 and 1731 ar...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach's masterful cantata for Trinity Sunday: "Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding" BWV 176. This expressive work captivates with its gripping opening chorus and profound re...

The cantata Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei BWV 179 opens with a motet-like choral movement in the stile antico without obbligato instruments. This is initially a counter-fugue:...

The cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181, composed for Sunday Sexagesimae 1724, has only survived incompletely: IT is missing the obbligato instrumental part of the second aria, which was rec...

The cantata "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" BWV 183 for Sunday Exaudi is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christian Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

The Whitsun cantata "Erwünschtes Freudenlicht" BWV 184 is based on a Köthen composition, presumably a congratulatory cantata, whose instrumental parts (the only surviving ones) Bach continued to use i...

A (rare) autograph date (14.7.1715) confirms that the cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe was intended for the 4th Sunday after Trinitatis 1715. Like many Weimar cantatas, it is a decidedly ch...

Bach's first Leipzig New Year's cantata has only survived in fragments. Neither the autograph score nor the vocal score of the original source material have survived in full. This applies in particula...

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...

When we hear the words "Johann Sebastian Bach" and "Magnificat", we immediately think of his famous Magnificat in D major BWV 243 or E flat major BWV 243a. However, during his time as St. Thomas' Cant...

At less than 20 years of age, the youngest son of the Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach broke away from the Lutheran musical tradition of his family: Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) went to...

The Advent cantata Machet die Tore weit has long been one of Telemann's most frequently performed church music works. Among the manuscripts that transmit the cantata is an important testimony to the e...

The cantata Nun danket alle Gott cannot be assigned to any of Telemann's known cantata years. Its designation "Tempore Messis" in the title of the only surviving source suggests that it was composed o...

Hosanna to the Son of David opens Telemann's cantata cycle "Musicalisches Lob Gottes in der Gemeine des Herrn" as a cantata for the 1st Advent. The year is based on poems by the Hamburg Jacobi chief p...

The Frankfurt Whitsun cantata from 1717 presents the choir and the four soloists with rewarding tasks and features a virtuoso recorder player in the opening chorus and in two of the three arias.

The Trauer-Actus is probably the earliest work of the Grimma Telemann cantata complex. Its textual and musical structure suggests that the work was composed during Telemann's time as a pupil in Hildes...

Vivaldi's employment at the "Ospedale della Pietà", one of the four orphanages in Venice where young girls received intensive musical training, prompted him to compose sacred works.