This is the premiere recording of sacred cantatas by JL Bach: works preserved due to his distant cousin, JS Bach, copying them for performance. Conductor Johanna Soller brings them to sensitive and vi ...
“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 ...
Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...
He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but also for its steadfast style.
The German conductor, who died earlier this month at age 92, co-founded the Oregon Bach Festival and recorded Bach’s complete surviving cantatas—the great hidden treasures of the composer’s oeuvre.
“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, ...
Some singers deliver Bach's music with impeccable technical proficiency and attention to tone, and some delve into the spiritual aspects of the composer's writing. Andreas Scholl does both, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...
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 ...
Thomas Quasthoff gets top billing, but the star of this disc is Dorothea Röschmann, who sings Bach's music with precision and tenderness. The repertoire includes three of Bach's dialogue cantatas, ...
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