At the regularly scheduled 9:30 a.m. liturgy on May 17, Saint Andrew's Church, Lambertville will hold a special celebration for the seventh Sunday of Easter, Ascension Sunday. Imbedded in the service ...

“For the glory of God alone.” With these words, Bach signed off each of his two hundred sacred cantatas. But with so many to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin. Our guide lifts the lid on a ...

The Chattanooga Bach Choir, David Long artistic director and conductor, presents its 4th annual Barnett & Company Cantata Series, focusing on J.S. Bach’s choral works chosen for the particular Sunday ...

Things look a lot less cheerful the following Sunday with Schau, lieber Gott (No 153) and Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (No 58), both saturated by an echt-Lutheran sense of anxiety and oppression.

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, ...

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As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...