#Bach1723: My Highlight
Personal, anecdotal, informative, and full of conviction: we reveal our Bach highlights for the anniversary year!
Cantata
The following articles on the keyword "Cantata" have previously appeared in the CARUS blog.Tag Archive for: Cantata
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A concert recommendation for Christmas 2023
Chief editor Uwe Wolf gives his program recommendation for a Christmas concert 300 years after Bach’s first cantata year in Leipzig.
Concert suggestions for the anniversary of Bach’s arrival in Leipzig in 1723
After taking up his post in Leipzig in May 2023, J.S. Bach composed at least one cantata every week. Kay Johannsen gives recommendations that celebrate this extraordinary creative period in Bach’s career 300 years later.
Concert recommendations for the feast of Epiphany
The feast of Epiphany is one of the oldest church festivals and a popular day for concerts. Frank Höndgen gives his suggestion for a Bach concert programme for this day.
Bach 300: The year 1723 and its repercussions
Renowned Bach expert Prof. Christoph Wolff explains why 1723 was a turning point in J.S. Bach’s creative and compositional career.
Gaining insight into the personality of Johann Sebastian Bach
What do we actually know about the personality of Bach over beyond the idealization of the Cantor of St. Thomas and even deification? It is only possible to compile cautious assumptions about his personal manner with the aid of sparse surviving comments by himself or his contemporaries. Some of his secular cantatas depicting the social life of his time hint at humorous and light-hearted character traits.
G. P. Telemann: Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin”
When Carus-Verlag asked Daniel Ivo de Oliveira to realize the basso continuo part of Mozart’s Mass in c minor K. 427, as completed and edited by Frieder Bernius and Uwe Wolf, he was brought into contact with a style of music that was new to him. After listening to the piece several times he was fascinated once again by Mozart’s exquisite music…
