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150: The Early Cantatas, All Summed Up.
We’ve now covered the seven surviving earliest vocal works by Johann Sebastian Bach! This episode is a brief tour through the episodes we dedicated to these pieces, refreshing our memories and attempting to identify unifying stylistic featu...
149: The Battle Between Life and Death
“The consummate expressiveness of {BWV 4] has always been marvelled at. Each verse is as if chiselled in music.” -Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2
Bach’s early Easter cantata remains one of the most beloved in the entire canon. Barely 22 years ol...
148: Ballooning! (Flying in the 18th Century)
Sometimes an article from the EB strikes me as so amusing, I simply have to share it with you. See you next week (or the week after, latest) for the conclusion of our early cantata survey, with Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4. Thanks for...
147: Is This Cantata Even By Bach?
Q: If, after you attended a Bach concert, someone told you that your favorite piece on the program was not, after all, by Bach… how would you feel?
Does this cantata actually fail to move us? Or does it fail to move us when we know its aut...
146: Toccata’s Twin! Double Fugue in F
Forever paired with the giant Toccata BWV 540, it’s unlikely the two were conceived together. Still, owing to certain sources and the fact that this fugue is a dignified and stately complement to the capricious toccata, the pairing works de...
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