Third Sunday after Trinity – 20th June 2021 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 21- ,Ich hatte viel Bekummernis’ –

Dec 13, 2022

A large and long, two-part cantata, 11 sections, 6+5, ‘Nach der Predigt’. Timps and trumpets, in the final chorus and trombones, as support to the choral parts, movement 9. Slow tempo-ed and mostly keyed in c minor, this setting reflects a text, in the...

3rd Sunday of Advent – December 11th 2022 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 29 – ,Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir’ –

Dec 9, 2022

An oboe orchestra, with additional trumpets and drums, is joined, by a substantial organ obbligato part, which appears twice, this opening sinfonia and the arioso, movement 7. 1/Sinfonia; Bach shamelessly cannibalizes form previous works. In this opening sinfonia, he...

– Sunday 3rd December 2022 -J.S.Bach wedding cantata BWV 195 – ,Dem Gerechten muss das Licht’ –

Dec 3, 2022

This Sunday 3rd December, is the second Sunday, of Advent. There is no surviving cantata by Bach, for this particular Sunday, so I have chosen this wedding cantata BWV 195, in its place.  An oboe orchestra, with supplementary violone and possibly bassoon continuo, is...

-Advent Sunday – 27th November 2022 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 62 -,Num komm, der Heiden Heiland’ –

Nov 26, 2022

This ‘oboe’ orchestra, with chorus and continuo, is not really, out of the ordinary, save for the fact that this continuo, warrant’s more extra bassline support, than at first might seem appropriate, at least one violone/bass and possibly a bassoon,...

– 23rd Sunday after Trinity – 20th November 2022 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 163 – ,Nur jedem das Seine’ –

Nov 14, 2022

2 cellos are required for the third movement – aria and 4 soloists are required, for 5 vocal movements, -3 arias and 2 recits. The only choral movement is the final choral and the orchestra, is simply strings and continuo. 1/Aria: To each, his own, is due. If...