“For the glory of God alone.” With these words, Bach signed off each of his two hundred sacred cantatas. But with so many to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin. Our guide lifts the lid on a ...
“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, ...
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano, Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Craig Smith, conductor (Nonesuch) This recording is an outgrowth of Peter Sellars’ staging of J.S. Bach’s Cantatas BWV 82 and 199 ...
Artistic genius thrives on outrageous challenges. Soon after Johann Sebastian Bach became Kapellmeister at Leipzig in 1723, he set himself the task of providing a newly composed work—for instrumental ...
A concert featuring two of J S Bach’s solo cantatas at the vast Royal Albert Hall in this year’s BBC Proms may at first glance seem at odds with their sacred, intimate nature and thoroughly Lutheran, ...
In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...
John Eliot Gardiner's spectacular falling out with his record company Deutsche Grammophon made the news pages, and also imperilled his ambition to celebrate the millennium and mark the 250th ...
The Chattanooga Bach Choir & Orchestra, David Long artistic director and conductor, opens its 41st Season with a Bach Cantata concert on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 663 Douglas St.
“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, ...
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