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Composer of the Week: Bach

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With Donald Macleod. 5: Bach the Dramatist. Apparently, Bach never had the opportunity to write an opera, but invested his dramatic talents in his Passion settings, secular cantatas, and in his virtuoso keyboard performances.
Mer Hahn en Neue Oberkeet, BWV212 (Peasant's Cantata) (excerpts)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
The Pacified Aeolus, BWV205 (excerpt) RIAS Chamber Choir, Akademie fur Alte Musik , director Rene Jacobs
Mit Verlangen Druck 'lch Deine Zarten Wangen (Phoebus and Pan, BWV201) Peter Lika (bass), Akademie fur Alte Musik , director Rene Jacobs
Toccata and Fugue in D, BWV538 Gerhard Weinberger (organ)
Partita No 2 in C minor, BWV826 Angela Hewitt (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Mer Hahn
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Soprano:
David Thomas
Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Alte Musik
Director:
Rene Jacobs
Director:
Mit Verlangen Druck
Unknown:
Deine Zarten
Bass:
Peter Lika
Unknown:
Alte Musik
Director:
Rene Jacobs
Unknown:
Gerhard Weinberger
Piano:
Angela Hewitt

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