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 main, obsessed...
Bach: The Cantatas
June 2021
-Sunday 27th June 2021-4th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach-cantata BWV 24-,Ein ungerfarbt Gemute’
‘An unvarnished spirit…. makes us fine before God -and man. The whole course of (our) life should be on this footing.’ An ‘examination-text’, where we are invited to examine our own heart and spirit. A ‘breathing-space, where, as the church year -and Bach, flows ever...
-Thursday 24th June 2021-The feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist-J.S.Bach-cantata BWV 7- ,Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam’
Bach Cantata BWV 7 The feast of the Nativity of St John The Baptist Thursday 24th June 2021… …and the gospel for this day is concerned with just that. However, the text to this cantata may lead us to think of it as all about the baptism of Jesus. -but think...