Forbes

Classical CD Of The Week: From Switzerland With Bach - Cantatas To Grip You

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 ...
dw

How Bach made the old new again in his cantatas

Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...
Los Angeles Times

Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It’s a lullaby for our times too

“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, ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Bach: Bass Cantatas

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is pure perfection: a vast yet intricate tapestry of heavenly beauty and human emotion. This CD presents Bach’s two sacred cantatas for solo bass, performed by ...