Probably one of my all-time favorite cantatas, with these words of Jesus standing in the center:
Tag: Cantata
Mother of All Melismata
This is the opening of Bach’s cantata for the Fourth Sunday in Advent (BWV 132). The video shows Bach’s own score. I love that it takes up to ten measures to sing the word Bahn—that’s like 85 notes. The road that John the Baptist comes to prepare seems to be a long and bumpy one.
A Shepherd's Story 