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), ...

“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, ...

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 ...

The main focus of the article is on the opening chorus of the cantata BWV 21 and its numerous and striking text repetitions. The article reveals that Johann Sebastian Bach was guided in his ...

2 p.m. May 7 and 14: Distinguished Scholar Lecture, “Bach and Mary” by Michael Marissen, professor of music at Swarthmore College. Marissen will address Bach’s most important compositions devoted to ...

It’s a rare singer whose artistry is so distinctive that, without any sense of willfulness or distortion, the music seems to bend in her image. Of the many fine singers who have taken on Bach’s solo ...

Bach Collegium Japan's deservedly acclaimed project to record all of Bach's cantatas has reached volume 51, which turns out to be an especially vibrant and generously filled collection of sacred ...

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 ...

BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Morning presenters Rob Cowan and James Jolly will be playing a Bach Cantata every Sunday, in the exact order of the Sundays and festivals for which they were composed, over the ...

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