Surely one of the greatest gifts the Lutheran Church ever gave to music was to have charged Bach with the duty of producing a cantata for every week of the year. He left us no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone, composed between 1714 (at Weimar) and 1724-31 (at Leipzig). They are inspired in very different
ways by Luther's original chorale: it is as if all of baroque Germany is contained between the sobriety of BWV 61 and the ambitious frescoes of BWV 36 and 62.
Bach, J S: Cantata BWV36 'Schwingt freudig euch empor'
Bach, J S: Cantata BWV61 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'
Bach, J S: Cantata BWV62 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'
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