If the cantata selected does not play, please open this page at. The italian term cantata was generally applied to pieces written for a single voice in the eighteenth century and bachs practice was no different. Customers and visitors can download classical music in high quality flac or mp3 and find out more about classical music. Johann sebastian bach cantata bwv 169 gott soll allein mein herze haben god alone shall have my heart 9. The list includes both extant cantatas and, as far as known, lost cantatas. Browse all verses even those not used in the inspected cantata and see which other cantatas make use of the same chorale.
The bga volumes available for download in djvu format. Provides a commentary on most of the sacred cantatas together with a lectionary. Having recorded the complete motets composed by the ancestors of johann sebastian bach ric 347, vox luminis now tackles their complete spiritual concerts and sacred cantatas, in which the instruments particularly the strings play a highly important role. Bwv 249, early version later versions known as the easter oratorio but the 1725 version was a cantata 6 42 85 103 108 87 128 183 74 68 175 176. Johann sebastian bach composer 16851750 play streams in full or download mp3. The composition of cantatas for the schlosskirche court chapel on a regular monthly basis started with his promotion to konzertmeister in march 1714. Most of bachs chamber music dates from his years at kothen, where he served as kapellmeister to the court of prince leopold. The new cantatas bach composed for easter of 1725 and afterwards were not chorale cantatas. All of bach is a project of the netherlands bach society. Download cantatas and enjoy it on your iphone, ipad, and ipod touch.
He composed it in 1725 in leipzig for the feast of the annunciation and led the first performance on 25 march 1725, which that year fell on palm sunday. In 1995, when masaaki suzuki and his bach collegium japan began the monumental journey of recording the cantatas, they decided to follow in bach s footsteps. After releasing all the brandenburg concertos and orchestral suites, zefiro joins forces with authoritative singer dominik woerner to investigate the intriguing relationship between bass voice and reed instruments in bachs sacred cantatas. The italian term cantata was generally applied to pieces written for a single voice in the eighteenth century and bach s practice was no different.
He spent several years focused on sacred music, composing over 200 cantatas and the great passions. Bach s cantatas and his other vocal works and many of his instrumental works. Bachs church cantatas continues to attract accolades from the musical press. Download bach cantatas and enjoy it on your iphone, ipad, and ipod touch. Bach collegium japan bcj is widely known as a leading baroque orchestra and chorus active in japan but with a worldwide reach. Cantatas bwv 150 cantatas bwv 51100 cantatas bwv 101150 cantatas bwv 151200 cantatas bwv 201224 scores of other vocal works.
The excellence of the bach collegium japan led by their inspirational director masaaki suzuki and with a lineup of some of the best and most experienced vocal soloists are know entities. Koopman bach cantatas series page 1 of 4 presto classical. The gap between austere lutheran piety and searing mediterranean emotionalism might seem unbridgeable. Bach s surviving church cantatas on their appointed feast day in the course of 2000, the 250th anniversary of. Digital booklet pdf johann sebastian bach 16851750. Highquality recordings of the works by johann sebastian bach are made freely available for everyone. Bach collegium japan bach collegium japan official website. This is long out of print but is widely available in libraries and does turn up second hand. Performers of bach s works, including their biographies, bach discographies. Cantatas is a handy database of johann sebastian bachs cantatas and the many versions of them which have been recorded.
Ruth rosique soprano, jesus fuster oboe, carlos apellaniz organ, salvador sanchis bassoon, javier sapina double bass. His goal was to compose a complete set of cantatas for the liturgical year within four years. Cantata bwv171 listen and download the album on jamendo music. And yet, given the highlycrafted art music of the second suite dances, the tightly structured figural density of sinfonia bwv146, or the extreme penitentiality of cantatas bwv199 and 82a, it is interesting that bach remains one of the most widely popular of all classical composers. This wonderful recording forms part of the ambitious bach cantata pilgrimage undertaken by sir john eliot gardiner, the monteverdi choir and the english baroque soloists, who, starting on christmas day 1999, set out to perform all j. Since its foundation in 1990, it has given around a thousand concerts in 71 cities in 15 countries and has issued more than 80 cds on the bis label, and has thus shared the wonders of the music of j.
And we cant complete the task without the financial support. Jul 04, 2018 as far as is known, johann sebastian bachs earliest surviving cantatas date from 1707, the year he moved to muhlhausen although he may have begun composing them at his previous post at arnstadt. While it was in the former capacity, as a keyboard virtuoso. The app has a collection of all cantatas complete with arias, recitatives, choirs and chorales. The second volume of baroque music from bolivian missions was nominated for a 2008 bbc music magazine award, and bbc music magazine selected volume 3 as disc of the month for april 2010. Bach cantatas albums channel classics nativedsd music. In 1723 bach became the kantor at the thomasschule in leipzig. Johann sebastian bach toccata and fugue in d minor welcome to the daily download, a handpicked, free, downloadable piece of classical music available every weekday. Visit the classical wedding music page for free mp3s of bach s arioso and jesu, joy of mans desiring try the piano page for bach s prelude in c major and twopart inventions johann sebastian bach 16851750 is the bestknown member of a large musical family.
Johann sebastian bach, helmuth rilling, bachcollegium stuttgart bach. The most important member of the family, his genius combined outstanding performing musicianship with supreme creative powers in which forceful and original inventiveness, technical mastery and intellectual control are perfectly balanced. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j. Bach s almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions. Beginning with an intimate melody of yearning for death, 1 the movement is an intense reflection of the text. This is equally evident whether one examines the church cantatas of bach, of which nearly 200 are extant see list of bach cantatas, or the chandos anthems of handel. The italian solo cantata tended, when on a large scale, to become indistinguishable from a scene in an opera, in the same way the church cantata, solo or choral, is indistinguishable from a small oratorio or portion of an oratorio. An indispensable reference book for anyone listening to, performing, or studying any of the bach cantatas. The translations are unrhymed but follow the meter and worddivision of the originals exactly so that they match their musical placement. The bach cantatas app allows you to catalog the cantatas of johann sebastian bach you have in your music collection. The bach cantatas website bcw is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of j. Koopman bach cantatas series previously begun on erato, koopmans cantata cycle was taken over and completed in 2007 on challenge classics. Johann sebastian bach, ton koopman, amsterdam baroque.
Bach cantatas arias albums harmonia mundi nativedsd. J s bach cantata wir danken dir, gott, wir danken dir. Two of bachs finest cantatas, both for solo alto, composed in weimar 1714 and leipzig 1726 respectively, are here coupled with pergolesis stabat mater of 1736, the eighteenth centurys favourite sacred work. Bach s vocal works, that is, of his cantatas, motets, masses, passions, oratorios, and chorales. Genovagreenwich for the 20 th sunday after trinity bwv 162, 49, 180 for the 21 st sunday after trinity bwv 109, 38, 98, 188. Close now that you have this pdf score, members artist are waiting for a feedback from you in exchange of this free access. Bach a notre dame les grandes canatates des fete bwv 70, 142, 147, 249 cantata bwv r. Bach, johann sebastian the complete cantatas, chorales. Bible the app contains the complete king james bible with an interactive concordance to bachs cantatas. Bach s almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions the list includes both extant cantatas and, as far as known, lost cantatas. Johann sebastian bach, helmuth rilling, bachcollegium. Sinfonia 1 bwv 787 sinfonia 2 bwv 788 sinfonia 3 bwv 789 sinfonia 4 bwv 790 sinfonia 5 bwv 791 sinfonia 6 bwv 792 sinfonia 7 bwv 793 sinfonia 8 bwv 794 sinfonia 9 bwv 795 sinfonia 10 bwv 796 sinfonia 11 bwv 797 sinfonia 12 bwv 798 sinfonia bwv 799 sinfonia 14 bwv 800 sinfonia 15 bwv 801 allemande in amin bwv. Andreas scholl countertenor, kammerorchester basel.
The bach cantatas disc with johannette zomer was awarded a 2008 edison award, dutch musics most prestigious prize. Bach cantatas, bwv 82 and 199 nonesuch records mp3. This is a sortable list of the bach cantatas, the cantatas of johann sebastian bach. It now looks set to surpass the famous leonhardtharnoncourt set on teldec and indeed most of his other competitors.
It is sortable by the cantata number which equals the number in the bach werkeverzeichnis bwv, by title. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director ryan turner. With the bach cantatas app you have an extensive reference of all sacral and secular vocal works of johann sebastian bach. Rifkin youtube baroque music for brain power memory, concentration, reasoning, study, relax duration. A major artisan of the renaissance in french music in the second half of the 19th century, alongside his elder colleague berlioz, whom he admired, and his followers bizet, saintsaens, and massenet, who were inspired by his faith in art, charles gounod 18181893, a mystic and a charmer, a romantic in search of a new classicism, owed his fame to a few.
Johann sebastian bach composer 16851750 play or download midi files from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. It is sortable by the cantata number which equals the number in the bach werkeverzeichnis bwv, by title, by occasion during the liturgical year, the year. There are still many recordings to be made before the whole of bach s oeuvre is online. A workbywork commentary on the bach cantatas by one of the worlds most famous bach scholars, now available in english and in paperback for the first time. Beautiful enough to stop a war the new yorker acclaimed american mezzosoprano lorraine hunt lieberson makes her nonesuch records solo debut with bach cantatas bwv 82 and 199featuring two pieces that she recently performed staged by peter sellars to tremendous critical and audience acclaim in boston, new york, paris, london, and lucerne. In his own lifetime he was known mainly as a great performer and improvisor on keyboard instruments, but. It includes all the cantata libretti in germanenglish parallel text.
A small but valuable guide to the best in the cantatas. Research period, series a, works of johann sebastian bach j. On this websize, you can find the texts and instrumentations of j. Bach dialogue cantatas quasthoff download jetzt kaufen. Bach cantatas arias albums harmonia mundi nativedsd music. Consequently the first volume of their series disc 1 in the present boxed set featured three of bach s very first cantatas bwv 4, 150 and 196 while the series and the set ends with.