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Many are known to be lost. Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas. Bach's earliest cantatas were written possibly from 1707, the year he moved to Mühlhausen, although he may have begun composing them at his previous post in Arnstadt.
The Kreuzstab cantata has been recorded either separately, for example as a selection of Fritz Werner's recordings, or as complete recordings of Bach's sacred cantatas BWV 1–200. [4] As a vocally demanding and expressive Bach cantata, it has often attracted recordings by soloists drawn from the broader world of opera and lieder singers.
Bach's cantatas usually require four soloists and a four-part choir, but he also wrote solo cantatas (i.e. for one soloist singer) and dialogue cantatas for two singers. The words of Bach's cantatas, almost always entirely in German, consist mostly of 18th-century poetry, Lutheran hymns and dicta. Hymns were mostly set to their Lutheran chorale ...
Recordings of the St John Passion are shown as a sortable table of selected notable recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245. The selection is taken from the 241 recordings listed on bach-cantatas as of 2015.
Cantatas (see also: List of Bach cantatas, Church cantata (Bach) and List of secular cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach) Up ↑: 1 1. 1725-03-25 Cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Annunciation) F maj. stbSATB 2Hn 2Odc 2Vl Str Bc 1: 1: I/28.2: 3 after Z 8359; text after Nicolai: 00001: 2 1. 1724-06-18
J. S. Bach - Das Kantatenwerk is a classical music recording project initiated by the record label of Telefunken in 1971 (the first recordings had been made in December 1970) to record all 193 sacred Bach cantatas. The project was entrusted to Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt. Each conductor had his own instrumental ensemble, based in ...
Recorded sets of Bach's motets usually include at least the motets BWV 225-229. For sets of six, either BWV 230 or BWV Anh. 159 is added. Motets have also been recorded individually, for instance Charles Kennedy Scott and the Bach Cantata Club recorded BWV 227, sung in English, in 1927, which was the first recording of any motet by Bach. [17]
This is a partial list of commercial or professional recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, organized chronologically.. The Bach cantatas fell into obscurity after the composer's death and, in the context of their revival, Christ lag in Todes Banden stands out as being having been recorded early and often; as of 2016, the Bach Cantatas Website lists 77 ...