Weekly Cantata Advent Calendar 2019

Again the soprano aria from Cantata 36 Schwingt freudig euch empor, but this time with the spotlight on the violinist. ...

Nothing to do with Bach cantatas, but everything with my mother, who was my main inspiration for starting a blog ...

Today is the fourth Sunday of Advent. When Bach worked in Weimar, he wrote two cantatas for this Sunday, one ...

More preparation for this coming Sunday's cantata "Bereitet die Wege" BWV 132. I have mentioned Weimar already a few times ...

There's one more cantata for the First Sunday of Advent: Cantata 36 Schwingt freudig euch empor. Again we see Bach the ...

Continuing a bit with recommendations for Holiday gifts, a CD I have been playing over and over again since it ...

Today is the 2nd Sunday of Advent.

When Bach worked in Weimar, he wrote a cantata for each of the 4 ...

Some more good organ music for you today. Not related to Advent, or is it? Bach quoted the first notes ...

What to watch during the holidays?

In 2012, Herreweghe's performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Brussels was recorded and released on ...

'tis the season of candles ... but did you know that in Bach's time, only wealthy people in palaces had ...

For some beautiful Christmas and Advent music that is NOT Bach, I recommend the "Seventeenth Century Christmas Eve" CD by ...

Welcome to the Weekly Cantata Advent calendar! For today, the first Sunday of Advent, Bach wrote Cantatas 61, 62, and ...

Would you like to buy a Bach cantata CD as a holiday gift? Here are some of my recommendations, based ...

Yesterday, only after December 6 had already long started in Europe, and my post on this Advent Calendar was already ...

The first Messiah I heard was Christopher Hogwood's from 1980, which was also the first Messiah on period instruments and ...

There is no music by Bach for Christmas Eve, because his music wouldn't sound in the churches in Weimar or ...

298 years ago, on December 3, 1721, Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Nobody knows which music was performed at their ...

The most famous part of Cantata 147 is of course the closing chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude, (Jesu, Joy of ...

Continuing in the Scandinavian Christmas atmosphere, I would like to share this incredibly beautiful Christmas concert from December 14, 2017, ...

One of my goals with the weekly cantata blog is to share paintings that were created in Western Europe in ...

Another cantata for the first Sunday of Advent, with the same title as the one from yesterday, Nun komm der ...

In preparation of this coming Sunday's Cantata 132 "Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn" here is the opening movement from ...