Sep 6, 2021
A 6 movement cantata, with opening chorale fantasia, 2 x recits, 2 x arias and closing chorale. Four soloists, a four-part chorus -with reinforcing cornetto, supporting opening chorale tune, usual strings and continuo -and extensive use of transverse flute, -movement...
Sep 1, 2021
6-part cantata, 2 x oboes + strings, continuo and chorus, each voice, -except alto, singing one aria or recit, -except the soprano, who sings two, the last recit and the last aria, which includes, in its orchestration, 3 x flauto dolce, or recorders, 3 trombones +...
Aug 23, 2021
A 6 movement cantata, 2 x oboes, strings, four vocal soloists, chorus, continuo, -on this occasion, including Bassoon- and Tromba da tirarsi, or slide trumpet. 1/(Chorus with chorale melody, in canon) ‘Then, I arose and went fourth into the plain: and, behold, the...
Aug 16, 2021
A 2-part cantata, 4+3, the second part, coming, as usual, after the sermon. Bach dispenses with chorus, assigns two recits and three arias, to a single alto voice and provides an introductory, voiceless Concerto, to part 1 and an introductory voiceless Sinfonia, to...
Aug 10, 2021
An 8 movement cantata. 1/(chorus) Introductory chorale-fantasia, in B minor. ‘Lord Jesus Christ, the highest good, and the fountain of all grace, see how, within my spirit, I am burdened with sorrows.’ Sorrows again and this time, led on by two loving, lilting, but...
