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 ...

“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, ...

“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 ...

The renowned Bach conductor's complete recordings of Bach's cantatas is now available for the first time in a limited edition 56 CD box set. Recorded as part of the Bach Cantata Pilgirmage in 2000, ...

Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

BWV37 is the earliest of the cantatas and opens with a chorus so liltingly delightful that one imagines the only reason it is not the first item on the disc is its rather tired-sounding choral entries ...

Grace Church -- a compact, austerely beautiful mid-19th-century chapel that is in lower Georgetown but looks as though it might have come straight out of Ingmar Bergman's Sweden -- has been presenting ...

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, ...