Oct 28, 2021
This interesting, innovative and historically important cantata, is both dramatic and theatrical, as well as being, musically, extremely. It is dominated by a rising sequence, sometimes nearly scalic and moving by step, other times fragmentary and most famously, in...
Oct 18, 2021
6 movements, choral cantata, opening chorus with choral melody, an incomplete orchestration of a tenor aria, and another incomplete aria, this time for bass, with a violin part prepared for a revival, a recit linking these two and a final chorale. In addition to the...
Oct 12, 2021
A 6 movement cantata, -aria, recit, aria, recit aria, choral, every voice except tenor being assigned an aria or recit, or in the case of the alto voice, both an aria and recit. Chorus, continuo and strings, are joined by 2 x oboes and in the first and last movements,...
Oct 10, 2021
This short and small-scale, chamber music-like work, is not a chorale-cantata, -or one framed, by choral based chorale movements. It is scored for strings continuo and 4-part-chorus, all of whom, -except the tenor, step forward for solos, and a trio of oboes including...
Oct 3, 2021
This cantata, has come down to us, in two versions. I will present the version, revised by Bach, where he added, what he calls, the corno da tirasi, -an instrument, only ever mentioned by Bach, and never anybody else, anywhere- for use, in his cantatas and most...
