This 5-movement cantata features, an oboe orchestra, -with a da caccia option during the 3rd movement aria and the addition of a clarion, -slide trumpet, (or 'natural' trumpet?), to reinforce the chorale melody during the last chorale movement, in fact the only...
Bach: The Cantatas
June 2023
– First Sunday after Trinity – J.S.Bach – cantata BWV 75 – ,Die Elenden sollen essen’ –
This is Bach's very first Leipzig cantata and for this occasion, he presents himself, at his very best. In the hierarchy of Bach masterpieces, this particular one registers as supreme. A seemingly long cantata, with considerable dimensions, -14 movements and...
– Trinity Sunday – 4th June 2023 – J.S.Bach – cantata BWV 176 – ‘Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding’ –
An oboe orchestra, + da caccia option, with four-part choir/soloists and continuo, this 6 movement setting contains no tenor solo, although there are two for alto voice. The mention of Nicodemus, brings up the pithy philosophical subject of a contrast, that between...