A large festive-orchestra, -3 x oboes + strings and organ continuo, 4 part choir/soloists+ 3 x trombe and timpani, is required for this festive St Michael’s day cantata. 1/ (chorus) Vivace: ‘Lord God, we praise you and justly thank you, for creating the angels, who...
Bach: The Cantatas
September 2022
– 15th Sunday after Trinity – 25th September 2022 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 100 – ,Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan’ –
A cantata, with a past, as Bach has drawn on previously performed material. Most probably, a celebration cantata, with a single oboe d’amore orchestra, with a heavy continuo, using a violone in its support and supplemented, by flute and a familiar trio, 2 x corno +...
– 14th Sunday after Trinity – 18th September 2022 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 78 – ,Jesu, der du meine Seele’-
An oboe orchestra, -with four part voices and continuo, is supplemented, by a Corno, -opening movement and closing choral, a flute, -Aria, movement 4 and closing choral and a Violine, an instrument difficult to identify, being described, as anything, from a fretted...
– 13th Sunday after Trinity – 11th September 2022 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 164 -‘Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo’-
A 6 movement cantata with a standard orchestra, -2 oboes, strings and continuo, but with two flutes required, only in movement 3 and not in the chorale and the two oboes required, only in movement 5 and 6, the final chorale, where all the voices come together, for the...
– 12th Sunday after Trinity – 4th September 2022 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 69 -,Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele’ –
Another town council election cantata, with a large orchestra, of strings, -with a trio of oboes and 1 oboe d’amore, chorus and continuo, -with bassoon, for extra bass support, and a trio of trumpets with timps, all contributing towards the ceremonial, aspects of this...