“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, ...

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, ...

Planning your audio adventure should be easy enough: resolve to take in a cantata on every Sunday and other holy day throughout the church year. There are plenty of online guides to tell you what Bach ...

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Boston's Handel and Haydn Society will make its Carnegie Hall debut with a program of Bach and Telemann cantatas and ...

This holiday season, Early Music Vancouver (EMV) is thrilled to present a joyful experience for the whole family - Festive Cantatas: J.S. Bach Magnificat & Cantata BWV 110 ('Let Our Mouth Be Full of ...

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 ...

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, ...

After a big anniversary, the Cantata Singers and music director David Hoose opened their 51st season on Saturday doing what they do best. Two of J. S. Bach’s church cantatas, the heart of the group’s ...

A jobbing composer under pressure to produce a constant stream of music; an artist and visionary reaching the divine and speaking directly to the heart of the human experience: Bach’s sacred music is ...