[PDF] BWV 39 - Bach Cantatas

Who sang Kantate BWV 39?

Bach: Kantate BWV 39 Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, Helmut Kahlhöfer 1958 [CR-39] Soprano: Agnes Giebel; Alto: Emmy Lisken; Bass: Gerhard Gröschel Recorded at Immanuelskirche, Wuppertal-Barmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Tape recording from the radio. Soprano: Edith Mathis; Contralto: Sybil Michelow; Bass: Franz Crass

Who is a soloist in Bach at one cantata series?

Soloists: Soprano: Sarah Brailey [BWV 39]; Alto: Luthien Brackett [BWV 39]; Alto: Clifton Massey [BWV 39]; Bass: Jonathan Woody [BWV 39] Recorded at Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City, New York, USA, in the frame of Bach at One Cantata Series.

Who wrote Bach's libretto for BWV 39?

The libretto used by Bach for BWV 39 comes the 1704 collection for Meiningen, entitled Sonntags- und Fest-Andachten; these religious texts have been attributed to Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Ludwig Bach's employer.

How many Meiningen cantatas did Bach write?

Of the relatively small number of nine cantatas newly composed by Bach during this period, seven were settings of Meiningen texts and all but one of these followed the formal compositional scheme of his cousin (BWV 39, BWV 88, BWV 187, BWV 45, BWV 102and BWV 17).