“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, ...

In his cantatas and church works, Bach frequently employs lively dance rhythms to express the most exuberant forms of worship. In the conclusion to his cantata “Praise the Lord, My Soul” (BWV 143), ...

“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 ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

When I last reviewed a CD of the ongoing survey of Bach’s cantatas by St. Gallen’s Bach Foundation or Bachstiftung, volume 13 in that series was the hook to talk about the merits of the project in ...

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 ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...

The main focus of the article is on the opening chorus of the cantata BWV 21 and its numerous and striking text repetitions. The article reveals that Johann Sebastian Bach was guided in his ...

Composed in 1713, this secular choral work is known as Sheep May Safely Graze, the Hunting Cantata, AND the Birthday Cantata? Why all the names? Allow us to explain... It's rare to have a piece of ...

JS Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein’ will be on display until 2025 Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the original manuscript of JS Bach’s ...