The liturgical year with Johann Sebastian Bach: Rondeau Production is publishing a ten-part CD series which presents a selection of cantatas for the liturgical year. In Leipzig, music for the liturgical year has an especially well kept tradition: up to the present day the Thomanerchor Leipzig (St Thomas\u2019s Boys Choir) and the Gewandhausorchester (Gewandhaus Orchestra) join forces each week in the performance of one of Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s cantatas at the church of St Thomas. The current disc in the series turns to feasts for the Blessed Virgin Mary: the cantata \u201cMit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin\u201d was composed in 1725 for the feast of Mary\u2019s Purification, and Johann Sebastian Bach wrote \u201cWie sch\u00f6n leuchtet der Morgenstern\u201d for the feast of the Annunciation in the same year. The famous chorale \u201cJesus bleibet meine Freude\u201d forms part of the cantata \u201cHerz und Mund und Tat und Leben\u201d. This composition originally set a different text, and was intended for the fourth Sunday of Advent. After a number of modifications to the text, the cantata was performed in Leipzig on the feast of the Visitation also in 1725. The cantata\u2019s opening chorus gains its particularly festive character through the initial trumpet motif. The current cantor at St Thomas, Georg Christoph Biller, is fortunate to have boys from the choir\u2019s own ranks performing the soprano and alto solos; a hallmark of the new recording\u2019s unique level of artistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The liturgical year with Johann Sebastian Bach: Rondeau Production is publishing a ten-part CD series which presents a selection of cantatas for the liturgical year. In Leipzig, music for the liturgical year has an especially well kept tradition: up to the present day the Thomanerchor Leipzig (St Thomas\u2019s Boys Choir) and the Gewandhausorchester (Gewandhaus Orchestra) … Continue reading St Thomas’s Boys Choir: |Cantatas for Marian Feasts 9\/10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1315,1317],"tags":[860,733,856,857],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choir","category-music","category-orchestra","tag-gewandhausorchester","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-thomanerchor-leipzig","tag-thomaskantor-georg-christoph-biller"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}