Cantatas

One might have thought that a recital entitled "Italian Cantatas From the Time of Farinelli" belonged at the Italian Embassy.

Music review: Damien Guillon at the French Embassy 2010

Pieter Jan Leusink, conductor of Holland Boys Choir and Netherlands Bach Collegium and artistic director of the Cantatas project, managed somehow, against all odds, to create a true best-seller out of what is arguably some of the finest music in the western world, but music which is generally considered to be "difficult".

Bach to Stravinsky sfmike 2009

But, as every cheerful pagan who enjoys the Bach Cantatas or Haydn's oratorios can attest, Christianity was responsible for a hell of a lot of good music.

Alex Henry: Gardiner's Haydn, or, A Musical Garden of Eden 2009

Pieter Jan Leusink, conductor of Holland Boys Choir and Netherlands Bach Collegium and artistic director of the Cantatas project, managed somehow, against all odds, to create a true best-seller out of what is arguably some of the finest music in the western world, but music which is generally considered to be "difficult".

Archive 2009-05-01 sfmike 2009

I wouldn't wish the great churches and cathedrals unbuilt, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer unwritten or Handel's Messiah or Bach's Passions and Cantatas uncomposed.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

I wouldn't wish the great churches and cathedrals unbuilt, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer unwritten or Handel's Messiah or Bach's Passions and Cantatas uncomposed.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

My guess is that the reason we don't hear many of the Cantatas is that there are so many - they become a fungible mass.

Bach to Bach Jessica 2006

The "Standard Cantatas" forms the third volume in the uniform series which already includes the now well known "Standard Operas" and the

Education and the Higher Life J. L. Spalding

From Mr. Iredall Jenkins, of Norfolk, Va., about one hundred Operas (Piano and Vocal scores) old and valuable editions; seventy-five Oratorios and Cantatas; several Light Operas; seventy volumes of miscellaneous works for the piano and Song Collections, to the Department of

Board of Visitors minutes 1925

Cantatas and choruses suitable for high and normal school will be studied and performed by the chorus.

The University of Virginia Record 1917