An oboe orchestra, -with taille, is supported with continuo, + organ obbligato, strings and a four part soloist/choir. The manuscript of this cantata was divided-up, sometime after Bach’s death and although, literally, small pieces still survive, almost the...
A festive orchestra for this festive feast day: 3 x trumpets + timps, 3 x oboes, four part chorus, with soloists, -3 x arias + 2 recits, and an organ continuo, strengthened with a single violone. This cantata features an important, interesting and colourful bassoon...
A standard string orchestra, -with organ continuo and 4-part chorus, is joined by 2 x flauto dolces, for this 6 movement cantata. There are two solo arias, -with alto and tenor soloists and one recitativo, with alto soloist. Two versions come down to us, Fassung A and...
This is indeed a fine and memorable six-section cantata, -see note below*, with a double-oboe d’amore-orchestra and the usual 4-part chorus/soloists + continuo. This is an almost totally ‘through-composed structure’ and in any case, is one of the...
This cantata of 5 movements, follows exactly the text of the 5 verse hymn up on which it is based and its tune is heard in each movement. This hymn tune is popularly known to us today, by its first line, ‘O worship the king’. The orchestration is festive,...
