This short and small-scale, chamber music-like work, is not a chorale-cantata, -or one framed, by choral based chorale movements. It is scored for strings continuo and 4-part-chorus, all of whom, -except the tenor, step forward for solos, and a trio of oboes including...
Bach: The Cantatas
Bach Cantatas
-Sunday 17th October 2021-20th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach cantata BWV 162-,Ach! ich sehe, Itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe’
This cantata, has come down to us, in two versions. I will present the version, revised by Bach, where he added, what he calls, the corno da tirasi, -an instrument, only ever mentioned by Bach, and never anybody else, anywhere- for use, in his cantatas and most...
-Sunday 10th October 2021-19th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach cantata BWV 48-,Ich elender Mensch,wer wird mich erlösen,‘
A 7 movement cantata: -opening chorus with choral melody, -extended accompanied alto recit, leading to a chorale, forming the end of an unofficial first half, -aria, short recit and aria (tenor), -closing chorale. 2 x oboes, strings, continuo, chorus, alto/tenor...
-Wednesday 29th September 2021-Michaelmas-The feast of St Michael-J.S.Bach cantata BWV 50-,Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft’
A one-single-movement cantata, with large, 8-part-chorus, or double choir and full, unusually-large orchestra, 3 x trumpets + drums, 3 x oboes, strings and continuo. This is a splendid movement and on a large scale, a choral fugue, really of quite breath-taking power....
-Sunday 26th September-2021-17th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach cantata-BWV 114-‘Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost.’
A 7 movement cantata, with opening choral fantasia, a central choral, with soprano and a closing ‘full’ chorale, 2 x recitativos, -bass and tenor, and 2 x arias, alto and tenor. 1 x Corno features, in a supporting role, a transverse flute, in one tenor aria, movement...
-Sunday 3rd October-2021-18th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach cantata BWV 169-,Gott soll allein mein Herze haben,’
7 movement cantata, for alto soloist, throughout, -with chorus, only in the final chorale, extended introductory sinfonia, in the form of a concerto movement, for organ, 2 x recit/arioso, 2 x arias and, a closing chorale-chorus. 1/sinfonia: The concerto BWV 1053 for...
-Sunday 19th September-2021-16th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach cantata BWV 27-,Wer weiss, wer nahe mir mein Ende‘-
6 movement cantata, opening chorale-fantasia, with cornetto support, -with vocal insertions- 2 x recits and 2 x arias, -one with Oboe da caccia, Orchestra consisting of 2 x Oboe (-one doubling caccia) strings, 4 soloists + 4-part chorus, organ and harpsichord...
-Sunday 12th September-2021-15th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach BWV 99-,Was Gott tut, du ist wohlgetan.’
A 6 movement cantata, with opening chorale fantasia, 2 x recits, 2 x arias and closing chorale. Four soloists, a four-part chorus -with reinforcing cornetto, supporting opening chorale tune, usual strings and continuo -and extensive use of transverse flute, -movement...
-Sunday 5th September-2021-14th Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach cantata BWV 25-, Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe,‘
6-part cantata, 2 x oboes + strings, continuo and chorus, each voice, -except alto, singing one aria or recit, -except the soprano, who sings two, the last recit and the last aria, which includes, in its orchestration, 3 x flauto dolce, or recorders, 3 trombones +...
-Sunday 29th August-13 Sunday after Trinity-J.S.Bach cantata BWV 77-,Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben,‘
A 6 movement cantata, 2 x oboes, strings, four vocal soloists, chorus, continuo, -on this occasion, including Bassoon- and Tromba da tirarsi, or slide trumpet. 1/(Chorus with chorale melody, in canon) ‘Then, I arose and went fourth into the plain: and, behold, the...