J.S. Bach’s music may speak to people of all faiths and no faith, but that doesn’t make him a product of Enlightenment-era liberalism.

A cantatas journey is the right way to extend that understanding. So get hold of the Rilling box, make way the path and clear a time for listening every Sunday or festival day morning. David Nice's ...

Fifteen cantatas turn up in the "best of" lists of all three Bach scholars, which is astonishing as they hadn't compared notes beforehand. Wollny, Maul and Gardiner then whittled the list down to 33.

With Helmut Rilling’s modern instrument cycle and recordings of individual cantatas by Philippe Herreweghe, there’s never been a better time to explore the Bach cantata legacy. It is the sheer variety ...

The cantatas are chock full of beauty – an exultant chorus, a soprano's voice floating above an accompanying oboe, weaving melodic lines, a stolid Lutheran hymn transfused with passion.

Bach Collegium Japan's deservedly acclaimed project to record all of Bach's cantatas has reached volume 51, which turns out to be an especially vibrant and generously filled collection of sacred ...

Bach and Leipzig. Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig at the age of 38 as the new Thomaskantor and municipal music director. He not only composed church cantatas for Sunday services, but also ...

Traveling around Europe and the U.S., they performed all of Bach's sacred cantatas (about 200 of them) on their appropriate Sundays in different churches. Bach.

Recording Bach's Cantatas, with Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan Lindsay Kemp Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Masaaki Suzuki has finally completed his project to record the complete church cantatas of ...

A Musicology Colloquium Talk by Ellen Harris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "Since the publication of Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas in 2001, I have continued ...