This cantata contains so much more than 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' - but it's a great way in to this religious piece from 1723. Bach was a busy composer in his post at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, ...

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 ...

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Gunther Schuller treated the near-capacity audience at St. John’s Cathedral on Friday to a quick survey of Bach’s church cantatas. What a magnificent musical and spiritual terrain it was to survey.

All Performances of Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 at BBC Proms ...

Ton Koopman leads members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and chorus in a chorale from Bach's Cantata No. 147, "Jesus, bleibet meine fruede." ...