St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
Composed as a funeral ode for Christiane Eberhardine—wife of Augustus II the Strong, and known as the "Pillar of Saxony"—Lass, Fürstin, lass...
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
For his first essay in the Passion genre, Bach (in his typical way) strove to create a work more ambitious that almost anything previously a...
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
Jesu, meine Freude is the longest and most musically complex of Bach's six surviving motets. In juxtaposing the Lutheran hymn "Jesu, meine ...
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
Bach's Magnificat capped his first Advent season in Leipzig in 1723. Sumptuously scored for five-part choir, it is Bach's first major compos...
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
First performed within weeks of each other in 1724, these two chorale cantatas are exemplars of their type.
St. John's Episcopal, Oakland
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