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Cantata BWV 124Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 123Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 122Das neugeborene Kindelein
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 121Christum wir sollen loben schon
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 120aHerr Gott, Beherrscher aller Dinge
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 120Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 119Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 118O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht
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This is not actually a cantata, but is nowadays more properly classified as a 'funeral motet'. It survives in two extant versions, one dating from 1736/7 and another from 1746/7. We do not know what funeral occasioned its composition, but the first record of its performance was in 1740 for Count Joachim Friedrich von Flemming on October 11, 1740. The first version used no strings, the second version did. [...]