This album is Publick Musick's second recording on the Musica Omnia label, following their Missae Breves, BWV 233-236.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bach aimed to provide a 'well-regulated church music' for his employers in Leipzig, composing a cycle of cantatas to cover every Sunday of the church year.
Performer Biography
Thomas Folan, the director of Publick Musick, is a specialist in Baroque music and has founded or directed Bach Festivals in New York.
Interpretation
Publick Musick, the ensemble on this recording, performs Baroque repertoire with attention to historical performance practice and on period instruments.
Composer Biography
Johann Sebastian Bach, the composer, was the third choice for the position of Director musices for Leipzig's four churches, after Georg Philipp Telemann and Christoph Graupner.
Interpretation
Publick Musick draws all its vocal soloists from its choir, creating a unique and homogeneous vocal sound.
Composition History
Two-thirds of Bach's original 300 'sacred concertos' or cantatas, planned to cover every Sunday of the church year, still survive today.
