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Complete Bach Cantatas Vol. 12
Johann Sebastian Bach

Complete Bach Cantatas Vol. 12

Ton Koopman / The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917221220
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Catalog number: CC 72212
Releasedate: 06-02-06
  • The cantatas in this volume all date from Johann Sebastian Bach's second year of office as Thomaskantor in Leipzig
  • nusually rich variety of form and colour that is one of their most distinctive features
The cantatas in this volume all date from Johann Sebastian Bach's second year of office as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. The series of chorale cantatas, which breaks off in early 1725, forms an almost complete yearly cycle which derives an exceptional unity of style and content from its debt to established Lutheran hymnody. Almost all the cantatas contain the first and last verse of a hymn, the other verses being paraphrased in recitatives and arias. Practically any selection of the chorale cantatas will display the unusually rich variety of form and colour that is one of their most distinctive features.