Cantatas for the Leipzig Bach Festival
The background
Cantatas for the Leipzig Bach Festival
In June every year, the Bach city of Leipzig is home to the Bach Festival – a big international music festival focusing on Bach. In 2020, the theme is 'Bach – We are Family!' and Bach societies and ensembles from all over the world are invited to perform.
“In these cantatas Bach used widely known hymns.“
The thread running through the festival is a complete performance of all the cantatas of Bach’s second cycle for Leipzig – the ‘chorale cantatas’ (cantatas that Bach based on well-known hymns). In this cycle, the Netherlands Bach Society is giving one of the big concerts in the St Nicholas Church, which includes the popular cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. We are delighted that we are also able to present this programme in the Grote Kerk, in Naarden.