![]() ![]() ![]() Undoubtedly the best known of the six cantatas is No. ![]() The original purpose of Cantata 117, composed between 17, is not known. Volume 24 (following Volumes 1 and 8) is devoted to cantatas for the third Sunday after Easter––BWV 12 (composed in Weimar, 1714), BWV 103 (1725), and BWV 146 (1726 or 1728) and the fourth Sunday after Easter––BWV 116 (1724) and BWV 108 (1725). But the random order of its first three releases suggests that you may have to acquire the complete set in order to achieve the intended sequence. Gardiner organized his Cantata Pilgrimage by function, not by number, and the recorded edition is supposed to suit. One can only hope that Gardiner (and Koopman and Suzuki as well) will provide an index upon completion of the cycle. Listeners whose knowledge of German, like mine, encompasses the titles of Wagner’s operas but little more are prone to identify Bach’s cantatas by their BWV designations (as above), even though the numbers are essentially meaningless––remnants of a time when musicology was a hobby, not a discipline. ![]()
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