BroadwayWorld: LACO's Jeffrey Kahane to Take Audience on Musical Tour of Bach's Cantata 140
LACO's Jeffrey Kahane to Take Audience on Musical Tour of Bach's Cantata 140
The 65-voice Gloucester County College and Community Chorus will present Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 140, "Wachet auf (Wake, Awake)" followed by familiar holiday music during its annual holiday ...
NEWTON — Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata 140 and John Rutter’s Requiem will showcase an All Saints Concert Sunday at Christ Episcopal Church, corner of Church and Main Streets in Newton. The Christ ...
Nothing if not unpredictable, Nikolaus Harnoncourt follows his controversial reading of Porgy and Bess with three Bach cantatas, as his 80th birthday celebrations bring us full circle to a definable ...
Surely one of the greatest gifts J.S. Bach gave to music was to have produced a cantata for every week of the year, including no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone. Even more ...
Of the 50 concerts in the Orchestra of St Cecilia’s Bach cantata cycle, a considerable share has fallen to conductor Blánaid Murphy, who in company with her Dublin Bach Singers will bring the 10-year ...
A cantata (/ kænˈtɑːtə /; Italian: [kanˈtaːta]; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements and often involving a choir.
A cantata is a work for voice or voices and instruments of the baroque era. From its beginnings in 17th-century Italy, both secular and religious cantatas were written.