Acknowledging salvation
When Bach took his new job as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, in May 1723, he set out to deliver on an ambitious goal: to present new, original cantatas for each Sunday and high feast of the liturgical year. It was, to a large extent, a self-imposed goal. While he certainly was in charge of music for […]
A wedding in Zion
“Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”, BWV 140 is arguably Bach’s best-known cantata. It was composed for the 27th Sunday after Trinity, which is a Sunday that occurs very rarely, only when Easter is particularly early in the year. This happened only twice during Bach’s tenure in Leipzig: first in 1731, when this cantata was […]