Nur jedem das Seine (BWV 163) is the first of two cantatas composed in late 1715 for the court in Weimar, where Bach compiled the Brandenburg Concertos. (We will hear the second, Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! (BWV 132), in December’s event.) At the time he was about a year into his employment there and the Court was just emerging from a period of mourning for Prince Johann Ernst, a keen and skilled musician. Speaking to the concerns of the court, the cantata takes as its inspiration the story of the Pharisees laying a trap for Jesus by questioning him about the legality of paying tax to Caesar.

Bach, the Universe & Everything: November 2025

Kings Place

Join us for a special evening as we collaborate with Anton Bruckner Choir for the first time to perform Bach’s extraordinarily complex masterpiece The Mass in B minor at Smith Square Hall (formerly St, John’s, Smith Square).

Mass in B Minor with Anton Bruckner Choir

Sinfonia Smith Square

Mayfield Festival: Messiah

St Dunstan's Church, Mayfield

Oxford Bach Choir: Handel, Messiah

The Sheldonian Theatre

This event sees the launch of Goethe: His Faustian Life (Bloomsbury Continuum), the new book by a leading literary figure of our time whose wide range has already taken in studies of Milton, Tolstoy, Dickens, CS Lewis and Iris Murdoch. A.N. Wilson now turns his attention to one of the giants of German literature and to what is surely Goethe’s greatest and most influential creation – known to music lovers from the innumerable song settings, operas, choral works and programmatic pieces it has inspired.

Sebastian Hill

Events

Past events

Nov 30, 2025

Bach, the Universe & Everything: November 2025 · Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Oct 11, 2025

Mass in B Minor with Anton Bruckner Choir · Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Mass in B minor by Bach

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Singer in Ego flos campi by Papa

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Singer in Nur jedem das Seine by Bach

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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