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Cantata BWV 66Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 65Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 64Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 63Christen, ätzet diesen Tag
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 62Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 61Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
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Back to Main Catalogue Bach Translations and Notes are copyright © Howard Rogers 2020, All Rights Reserved [...]Cantata BWV 60O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort
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The harmonies in the opening of the fifth movement (the closing chorale) are really rather extraordinary and clearly appealed to Alban Berg some two hundred years later as he used that chorale tune (and its strange harmonisation) as inspiration for the last movement of his violin concerto: [...]
Cantata BWV 59Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten
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Note that on the Suzuki CD used as the source of the audio samples for this cantata, Suzuki provides a 5th movement -a closing chorale, on the grounds that having a cantata of only 4 movements that ends with a Bass aria is highly unusual and strongly suggestive of the cantata coming down to us in an incomplete form. He therefore borrows the final movement from BWV 6 to provide the closing harmonies for this work. However, this makes Suzuki's 5th movement technically spurious, and therefore I have not included it in my audio samples. You will note, for example, that the full score for this work doesn't include a fifth movement at all. [...]