The Unadorned Bach – Cantatas #191-198

While many of Bach’s contemporaries actively engaged in writing cantatas, Telemann being the most well-known, Bach used this genre to create some of his most experimental works. He frequently employed musical ideas to illuminate, deepen, and sometimes contradict the message of the text. In Bach's hands, the cantata evolved from a work of devotion to that of a penetrating psychological exploration of religious art. The composer lays bare and disse...