An oboe orchestra, + continuo and 4-part chorus, is supplemented, in this cantata, with 2 x recorders and a tromba, resulting, in the aria movement, no 3, an orchestration not heard anywhere else in Bach. 1/(chorus): 'Lord Jesus Christ, -true man and true God. Who...
Bach: The Cantatas
2024 Cantatas
– Purification of The Blessed Virgin Mary – Friday 2nd February 2024 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 157 – ‘Ich Lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn’ –
This cantata may have its compositional roots in music written for a previous funeral event. A chamber-like oboe d'amore orchestra, is supplemented with a single flute, -themselves starkly contrasting orchestral colouration and textual content, the four voices joining...
– 3rd Sunday after Epiphany – Sunday 21st January 2024 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 156 – ‘Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe’ –
A small, 1 x oboe orchestra, with 4-part chorus and soloists, - although the tenor voice in fact has no solo, accompany this short and compact cantata. The score suggests that a violone should be included in the continuo line-up. 1/Sinfonia: The questioning and...
– The Circumcision of Christ – New Year’s Day – 1st January 2024 – J.S.Bach cantata BWV 171 – ‘Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm bis an der Welt Ende.’t
In this New Year's Day cantata, from 1729, a festive orchestra, -with trumpets and drums, brings some considerable sense of awesomeness and power, to the name of God. 1/(chorus): 'According to you name, O God, so is your praise, -and to the ends of the earth.' This...