Bach Cantatas Website - Home Page
Jan 9, 2025 · The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of J.S. Bach's cantatas and his other vocal works and many of his instrumental works. The BCW contains for most works: detailed discographies, discussions, texts and translations, scores, commentaries, references, music examples...
Bach cantata - Wikipedia
The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas (German: Bachkantaten), are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost.
List of Bach cantatas - Wikipedia
This is a sortable list of Bach cantatas, the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. His almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions. Many are known to be lost. Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas.
Index to Texts & Translations of Bach Cantatas - Main Page
Oct 21, 2023 · This section of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) contains texts & translations of all Bach Cantatas & his other vocal works. Most of the translations are located at the BCW, but links to other translations over the web are provided as well.
Index to Recordings & Discussions of Bach Cantatas - Main Page
Jan 19, 2022 · This section of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) contains comprehensive discographies of all Bach Cantatas. The recordings of each work are arranged chronologically, according to recording date. This section also contains discussions of Bach Cantatas, most of which have been compiled from the Bach Cantatas Mailing List (BCML).
Which Bach Cantata today? - Home Page
Jan 1, 2025 · Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) left us a wide collection of cantatas, written for celebratory days of the liturgical calendar or other special celebrations.
The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach – A listener and student …
Welcome to a unique website devoted to Bach's Cantatas. You are never more than two clicks away from an original essay on each of the church and 'secular' cantatas. There are over 1000 music examples which can be heard by clicking the icons (see below).
Texts and historically-informed translations for the music of …
These new English translations of the texts of J. S. Bach’s vocal music are based on the historical language and theology of Bach’s time. (See About the translations .) They are made freely available for concert programs, recording notes, scholarly work, and course materials.
Church cantata (Bach) - Wikipedia
Bach's earliest cantatas date from more than 15 years before he became Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723. His earliest extant cantatas were composed in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen. In 1708 he moved to Weimar where he wrote most of his church cantatas before the Leipzig era.
Favorite Bach Cantatas | Brian Hall’s Web Page
On this page, I will share some of my favorite cantatas by Bach. For each cantata, I include a brief discussion, a link to a high-quality video, and a link to the German text with English translation.
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