Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...
The Bach Parley concert on Nov. 11 will feature two Bach Cantatas, numbers 61 and 150, with musicians playing period instruments and the Bach Parley Chamber Singers. Music director Valerie Arsenault ...
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 ...
On Saturday, St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church will resonate with the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the voices of the Yale Voxtet — an ensemble of eight singers in the early music voice ...
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 ...
J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 7, "Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam" ("Christ our Lord came to the Jordan") will be presented at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Lambertville, Sunday, Jan. 11, at 9:30 a.m.
At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 17, Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church will present J.S. Bach's Cantata #4, Christ lag in Todesbanden; Christ lay in Death's strong bonds. Soloists for Cantata #4, which ...
“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, ...
Bach: Two Cantatas (”Ich habe genug,” BWV 82; ”Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen,” BWV 56); Handel: ”Susanna” and ”Messiah” arias (William Parker, baritone; Arcadian Academy and Bach Choral Guild; ...