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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Episode 1 of 5: A One-Man Cantata Factory

As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, all this week Donald Macleod explores Bach's vocal music.

In April 1723, after a great deal of political wrangling between rival factions on the Leipzig town council, Bach was appointed Cantor of the celebrated Thomasschule. At last he had the opportunity to realize a vision he had had, 15 years and several jobs earlier, in his post as organist of St Blasius's Church in Mühlhausen. That vision - his "ultimate goal", he called it - was the creation of "a regulated church music". In practice, this simple-sounding aspiration entailed the Herculean labour of producing - not to mention preparing for performance - a cantata for every single Sunday and feast-day of the church year. Almost incredibly, he kept this up, with minimal reliance on previously composed material, for the first three years of his tenure at Leipzig - a period during which he was, in short, a one-man cantata factory. Today, Donald Macleod focuses on the first of those annual cantata cycles. The emotional range is huge, from the festive cheer of Cantata 40: 'Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes' to the thrilling, borderline-operatic drama of Cantata 81: 'Jesus schläft, was sol ich hoffen?'.

00:01
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 75 Bwv.75 - Part 1; Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
Performer: Ton Koopman.
Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

00:05
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 90 Bwv.90 - Es reisset euch ein schrecklich Ende (Aria)
Performer: Masaaki Suzuki.
Performer: Toshio Shimada.
Singer: Peter Kooij.
Singer: Robin Blaze.
Ensemble: Japan Bach Collegium.

00:21
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 40 Bwv.40 - Dazu ist erscheinen der Sohn Gottes (Chorus)
Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
Director: Ton Koopman.
Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir.

00:38
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 81 Bwv.81 (Jesus Schlaft, Was Soll Ich Hoffen)
Singer: Peter Harvey.
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Singer: Paul Agnew.
Choir: Monteverdi Choir.
Singer: William Towers.

00:56
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 50 Bwv.50 (Nun Ist Das Heil Und Die Kraft)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Choir: Monteverdi Choir.

First broadcast: 15 Jun 2015 (b05y61y7)
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