2/5. Donald Macleod explores the weekly teaching routine that Bach established in Leipzig following his arrival there in the spring of 1723. Daily singing lessons and instrumental teaching allowed Bach to get the city's young musicians into shape and ready for one of the most ambitious musical projects ever undertaken - Bach's Leipzig cantata cycles, which provided music for the complete ecclesiastical year.
Es ist nun nichts verdammliches an denen (Jesu, meine Freude, BWV227) Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano),
Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Neil MacKenzie (tenor), Richard Savage (baritone), English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Cantata No 147: Herz und Mund und Tat und
Leben Ruth Holton (soprano), Michael Chance
(countertenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Cantata No 119: Preise, Jerusalem, den
Herrn Deborah York (soprano), ingeborg Danz (mezzo), Mark Padmore (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass),
Collegium Vocale , director Philippe Herreweghe Repeated at 8.45pm