This is the premiere recording of sacred cantatas by JL Bach: works preserved due to his distant cousin, JS Bach, copying them for performance. Conductor Johanna Soller brings them to sensitive and vivid life
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This is the premiere recording of sacred cantatas by JL Bach: works preserved due to his distant cousin, JS Bach, copying them for performance. Conductor Johanna Soller brings them to sensitive and vivid life
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e’ll probably never know why Johann Sebastian Bach broke off his prodigious flow of sacred cantatas in 1726 to instead perform a set of 18 by a distant third cousin, but as this revelatory four-disc set demonstrates, we should be glad he did.
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