Bach: The Cantatas

A festive orchestra for this festive feast day: 3 x trumpets + timps, 3 x oboes, four part chorus, with soloists, -3 x arias + 2 recits, and an organ continuo, strengthened with a single violone. This cantata features an important, interesting and colourful bassoon...

This is indeed a fine and memorable six-section cantata, -see note below*, with a double-oboe d'amore-orchestra and the usual 4-part chorus/soloists + continuo. This is an almost totally 'through-composed structure' and in any case, is one of the best and most complex...

This cantata of 5 movements, follows exactly the text of the 5 verse hymn up on which it is based and its tune is heard in each movement. This hymn tune is popularly known to us today, by its first line, 'O worship the king'. The orchestration is festive, -three...