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The Bach Sinfonia is an American musical ensemble based out of Washington D.C. that specializes in the performance of 18th-century music using historically informed performance practices. Founded in 1995 by music director Daniel Abraham, the ensemble consists of an orchestra reflecting the size and instrumentation of the baroque period as well as a number of vocal and instrumental soloists. The ensemble has been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today and has recorded works by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.
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Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the solo cantata for alto voice in Leipzig for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 8 September 1726.
Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, is an early church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach composed for an unknown occasion. It is unique among Bach's cantatas in its sparse orchestration and in the independence and prominence of the chorus, which is featured in four out of seven movements. The text alternates verses from Psalm 25 and poetry by an unknown librettist. Bach scored the work for four vocal parts and a small Baroque instrumental ensemble of two violins, bassoon and basso continuo.
The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721. The original French title is Six Concerts Avec plusieurs instruments, meaning "Six Concertos for several instruments". Some of the pieces feature several solo instruments in combination. They are widely regarded as some of the greatest orchestral compositions of the Baroque era.
Trevor David Pinnock is a British harpsichordist and conductor.
Joanna Clare MacGregor is a British concert pianist, conductor, composer, and festival curator. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of the University of London. She was artistic director of the International Summer School & Festival at Dartington Hall from 2015 to 2019.
Albrecht Mayer is a German classical oboist and conductor. The principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic, he is internationally known as a soloist and chamber musician and has made many recordings.
Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18, is an early church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Weimar for the Sunday Sexagesimae, the second Sunday before Lent, likely by 1713.
Daniel E. Abraham is an American conductor and musicologist. He studied conducting under Paul Traver at the University of Maryland and William Weinert at the Eastman School of Music. Known for both his research and knowledge in the area of early music and the music of the baroque period, Abraham has written several publications on the topic of historically informed performances.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49, in Leipzig for the twentieth Sunday after Trinity Sunday and first performed it on 3 November 1726. It is a solo cantata, a dialogue of soprano and bass.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Es wartet alles auf dich, BWV 187 in Leipzig for the seventh Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 4 August 1726.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52, in Leipzig for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity. He led the first performance of the solo cantata for soprano on 24 November 1726.
Richard John Campbell was an English classical musician, best known as a founder member of the early music ensemble Fretwork and for his newer association with the Feinstein Ensemble, specialising in historically accurate performance of 18th-century music.
Musica Florea is a Czech Baroque music ensemble in Prague, founded in 1992 by conductor and cellist Marek Štryncl.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75, for the first Sunday after Trinity. He led its first performance in Leipzig on 30 May 1723, his first Sunday in the position of Thomaskantor. The complex work is in two parts, each consisting of seven movements, and marks the beginning of his first annual cycle of cantatas.
Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. The early church cantata, possibly for a wedding, is difficult to date, but is generally considered to be an early work on stylistic grounds. The text is a passage from Psalm 115, assuring of God's blessing, especially for children. Scholars have suggested the work may have been written for the wedding of Johann Lorenz Stauber, the minister in Dornheim who had married Bach and his first wife there in 1707, and Regina Wedemann, an aunt of Bach's wife, on 5 June 1708.
Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the third Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it in 1727 or 1729. The cantata is well known for its opening sinfonia for orchestra and oboe solo.
Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209, is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and possibly first performed in Leipzig in 1747. With Amore Traditore, it is one of the composer's only two settings of a text in Italian.
Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045, sometimes referred to as a violin concerto movement (Konzertsatz), is an orchestral work for solo violin, three trumpets, timpani, two oboes, strings and continuo, by Johann Sebastian Bach. A late work composed in Leipzig between c. 1742 and 1746, surviving only as a fragment, the movement is a sinfonia of an otherwise lost cantata. In particular, the piece ends abruptly, with the last two bars appearing in someone else's hand and attached as a separate page at the end of the manuscript, which is otherwise in Bach's hand. The work features a highly virtuosic concertato part with extensive chordal and arpeggiated passages and at one point reaches an "unusual high for Bach's violin music".
The Ensemble Resonanz is a German string ensemble that combines the performance and promotion of Neue Musik with the interpretation of classical repertoire. It sees itself at the interface between chamber orchestra and soloist ensemble for Neue Musik. The ensemble is based in Hamburg, where it is an Ensemble in Residence of the Elbphilharmonie.
