These works are the first of one of the most important musical collections in the whole of the western world, delivered in all their splendour in this concert with La Chapelle de Québec.
It is easy to imagine the great Johann Sebastian Bach almost exclusively as an elderly man, steeped in the greatest musical knowledge that only time and experience can bring. Yet it was a young man in his early twenties who handed down to us the powerful, true masterpieces that comprise his very first sacred cantatas.
J.S. BACH,
Cantate Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
Cantate Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
Cantate Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131
Cantate Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150
