“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, ...
Montréal’s blend of New World freedom and Old World substance permeates the uninhibited, spontaneous music-making in this joyful Bach Cantatas release. The use of one voice per part, easily dismissed ...
Bach’s “It is Enough” Cantata (No. 82, “Ich habe genug”) continues to fascinate and disturb. New recordings continually surface, and the ever-inventive director Peter Sellars even devised a ...
Cantatas 82 and 199 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano; the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music; Craig Smith, conductor; Nonesuch, $16.99 No one in the Bay Area needs to be persuaded or even reminded ...
Although acted-out versions of Bach’s passions and cantatas are hardly unprecedented – even the Metropolitan Opera staged one of the secular cantatas (No. 201) as long ago as 1942 – the possibilities ...
Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas not only inspire choirs worldwide, but also those who can't actually hear his music, as seen at the Leipzig Bach Festival. Eighty-eight people move on a large stage to ...
The chorale from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata No. 4, Christ Lag in Todesbanden, was the nugget that was supposedly hidden in the Ciaccona from Bach's Partita in D Minor. That formed the basis of ...
“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, ...