Tuesday Concert Series: Washington Bach Consort
Date: Tuesday May 4th, 2010
Time: 12:10 pm
Location: Church of the Epiphany
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J. Reilly Lewis, founder and music director
- Noontime Cantata Series -
Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
Prelude & Fugue in D Major, BWV 532: Scott Dettra, organist
The festive conclusion to this Cantata Series season is this splendid work scored for trumpets, timpani, flute, oboe and strings written for the Feast of the Pentecost, the celebration of the birth of the Christian Church. It was quite possibly also used, with a different text, as a New Year's Day cantata in honor of the Princely House of Weimar. The sixth movement is a chorale based on the tune by Philipp Nicolai (1599) usually associated with the words "How brightly shines the morning star." As with the previous cantata, No. 185, the first violin again creates a flowing musical halo above the familiar melody. Bach reprises the brilliant opening chorus to conclude this exuberant work.
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