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 ...

“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 ...

Bach’s surviving Easter cantatas, which date from 1707 to the late 1720s, provide the perfect point of entry for anyone unfamiliar with the composer’s works for the church year. Top marks to Challenge ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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Johann Sebastian Bach lost both of his parents when he was nine and watched ten of his children die young. He was, in other words, well acquainted with death, and may have been uncommonly sensitive to ...

It’s a perverse thing to say about a disc of solo bass cantatas, but I like this recording best for its ensemble playing. Freiburg Baroque are at the top of their game: lithe, shapely, tuneful. The ...