Bach: The Cantatas

An opening chorus -a cleaver combination of French Overture with chorale arrangement, is followed, after a tenor recitativo, by a tenor aria. another Recitativo, -this time for bass, a soprano aria and a closing amen and prayer. Strings, with two viola parts, -along...

The cantata BWV 116, features strings, 2 x Oboe d’amore, Continuo, in its instrumentation, with Chorus, and a single Corno, which appears, in the first and last choral movements, the others being an Alto aria, followed by a Tenor recitativo, followed by a Terzetto,...

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...

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...