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 ...

Surely one of the greatest gifts J.S. Bach gave to music was to have produced a cantata for every week of the year, including no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone. Even more ...

Sigiswald Kuijken’s illuminating mini-series of carefully selected cantatas for a liturgical year alights on four Advent works, three of which make regular appearances on disc. As we have come to ...

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner Soli Dei Gloria SDG 162(2 CDs) **** The survey of Bach's cantatas by the Orchestra of St Cecilia's Dublin has taken 10 years. John Eliot ...

Four of Bach's Advent cantatas formed this substantial programme given by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, but such is the variety of the music and so acute Sir John Eliot Gardiner's ...

Cantata No. 27, 'Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende, Movements: Willkommen will ich sagen (alt. organ vers) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer This sentiment of “willkommen” to death might appear ...

This cantata contains so much more than 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' - but it's a great way in to this religious piece from 1723. Bach was a busy composer in his post at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, ...