“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, ...
LONDON — Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s self-produced recording of Bach cantatas won record of the year honors Thursday at the annual Gramophone Awards. The recording, on Gardiner’s Soli Deo Gloria label, ...
Personal sins and their forgiveness are central to the cantatas performed live as part of the Monteverdi Choir’s epic Bach pilgrimage in Potsdam. The message registers with heartbreaking force in bass ...
Part of John Eliot Gardiner’s mammoth Bach Cantatas project with his English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir. This set of cantatas, released this week, was recorded live at the church of St.
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 ...
The Chattanooga Bach Choir 2018-19 Barnett & Company Cantata Series concludes Sunday at 5 p.m., with music celebrating the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25). The concert will be held at Christ ...
A concert featuring two of J S Bach’s solo cantatas at the vast Royal Albert Hall in this year’s BBC Proms may at first glance seem at odds with their sacred, intimate nature and thoroughly Lutheran, ...
To mark his 75th birthday John Eliot Gardiner conducted three programmes of Bach cantatas in a weekend devoted to the composer. What better way to celebrate? Gardiner performed the whole cycle of more ...
WEST PARK - Kairos: A Consort of Singers, under the direction of Dr. Edward Lundergan, will continue its 2017-2018 Bach Cantata Series at 3 p.m. Feb. 4. The program will be performed in the intimate ...
Sometimes music is most moving when it evokes the past. Familiar works that engage listeners in emotional time-travel include Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and much of the ...