During his lifetime, Bach produced an enormous number of pieces ... contained more information than chorales, which were composed for church settings, where a simple, meditative environment ...

In the Lutheran Germany of Bach's time, the musical menu for church ... motet singers needed less skill; and chorale singers (who performed only the chorales - or Lutheran hymn-tunes) didn't ...

Bach and his fellow German organists produced hundreds of "chorale preludes" like this one – small pieces based on a traditional hymn tune. You must enable ...

At the heart of the performance is soprano Dorothee Mields, renowned for her spellbinding interpretations of Baroque music. The concert features Bach’s beloved Cantata BWV 202, “Weichet nur, betrübte ...