Apr 15, 2022
A later, sacred reworking, of an earlier, secular serenata, -probably the congratulatory cantata, BWV 66a, this cantata, adds a lone trumpet, to its standard orchestra. 1/(chorus) ‘Hearts rejoice, sorrows begone, The Saviour lives and reigns, among you. Drive away...
Apr 10, 2022
This extraordinary and beautiful cantata allows Bach, to draw together a large ensemble: oboes, with a d’amore option, strings and continuo and a 5-part choir, with solo bass, tenor and soprano recits and arias, are joined by an extra oboe, taille and a bassoon, for...
Mar 29, 2022
The complex revisions, musical-evolution and the history, of the formation, of this cantata-oratorio, are not under discussion here. What we have and can see before us, set out, in 11 sections, for Easter Sunday, but here presented, as a suitable fill-in for Psalm...
Mar 29, 2022
In this, 6-movement, festival cantata, containing some re-cycled material, the orchestra, -with an oboe d’amore option and chorus, are joined, by a concertanteor solo violin. Three trumpets and timps, are included, but only in the second, strictly choral movement....
Mar 20, 2022
A splendid festive civic-election cantata, Ratswechsel, that just gets more and more splendid, as it progresses. Leipzig, in the August of 1723 just did not realise, how lucky it was, to have such music, in its midst. A large scale work, with 9 varied and interesting...
