Category: cantata

Johann Adolph Hasse: Cantata for Flute

J.A. Hasse Cantata for Flute Ariadne Art Ensemble Alessandro Nasello, recorder Andrea Rigano, cello Cinzia Guarino, harpsichord Paolo Rigano, archlute Live from the program: Multi-instrumentalism in the 18th century, by Alessandro Nasello Credit: alexnax888 – www.youtube.com/@alexnax888


J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 I ‘Jauchzet, Frohlocket’ (J.S. Bach Foundation)

This is a 1734 Christmas cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach that serves as the first part of his Christmas Oratorio. Bach was then Thomaskantor, responsible for church music at four churches in Leipzig, a position he had assumed in 1723. For the oratorio, the libretto by an unknown author followed the nativity of Jesus from…