Bach: Weinen, Klagen - Cantates, BWV 12, 38, 75 (2005)

In a time when Bach cantatas are recorded in big bunches, it's a pleasure to find a single-disc grouping, beautifully selected and performed. Weinen, Klagen... (Weeping, Lamentation...) presents three cantatas with a common theme and plan. The theme of lamentation in the face of suffering and death transmuted into the comfort of Christ is a common enough one in the world of Bach's cantatas, but these three works -- Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (Weeping, lamentation, worry, fear), Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, ... Read More

In a time when Bach cantatas are recorded in big bunches, it's a pleasure to find a single-disc grouping, beautifully selected and performed. Weinen, Klagen... (Weeping, Lamentation...) presents three cantatas with a common theme and plan. The theme of lamentation in the face of suffering and death transmuted into the comfort of Christ is a common enough one in the world of Bach's cantatas, but these three works -- Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (Weeping, lamentation, worry, fear), Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38 (In deep distress I call to thee), and Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75 (The miserable shall eat) -- are all important works, written for occasions Bach himself considered significant. Each comes from a different stage of Bach's career, and the listener thus is afforded a splendidly focused insight into the inexhaustible freedom of Bach's imagination even when it was operating within a strict set of formal constraints and conventions. Each of these cantatas, broadly speaking,... Read Less

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