Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...
When I last reviewed a CD of the ongoing survey of Bach’s cantatas by St. Gallen’s Bach Foundation or Bachstiftung, volume 13 in that series was the hook to talk about the merits of the project in ...
The Chattanooga Bach Choir, David Long artistic director and conductor, presents its 4th annual Barnett & Company Cantata Series, focusing on J.S. Bach’s choral works chosen for the particular Sunday ...
“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...
In his cantatas and church works, Bach frequently employs lively dance rhythms to express the most exuberant forms of worship. In the conclusion to his cantata “Praise the Lord, My Soul” (BWV 143), ...
The Chattanooga Bach Choir 2018-19 Barnett & Company Cantata Series concludes Sunday at 5 p.m., with music celebrating the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25). The concert will be held at Christ ...
JS Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein’ will be on display until 2025 Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the original manuscript of JS Bach’s ...
The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...