Surely one of the greatest gifts J.S. Bach gave to music was to have produced a cantata for every week of the year, including no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone. Even more ...
As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...
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For their Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000, 250 years after the death of JS Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and Baroque Soloists performed all 198 cantatas throughout Europe and in New ...
After Johann Sebastian Bach became Kapellmeister at Leipzig in 1717, he set himself the task of providing a newly written cantata—with instrumental group, solo voices, and chorus—for every Sunday and ...
It seems an unlikely image: Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, trying out his new ideas for Christmas music on an audience in a local coffeehouse. But if you could time-travel back to Gottfried ...
A Bach cantata with no recitatives and another with no solo arias, each bookending Respighi’s lush, rarely-heard “Lauda per la Natività del Signore” made this year’s Bach Choir of Bethlehem Christmas ...
Sometimes music is most moving when it evokes the past. Familiar works that engage listeners in emotional time-travel include Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and much of the ...
As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...