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J.S. Bach's Burlesque Cantatas
LCMS 2022/23 Sunday series
Part of the London Chamber Music Society (LCMS) 2022/23 Sunday Series
Add to my Calendar 06-11-2022 18:30 06-11-2022 20:30 36 J.S. Bach's Burlesque Cantatas A rare opportunity to hear JS Bach’s ‘Peasant’ and ‘Coffee’ Cantatas: secular and satirical masterpieces, nothing less than comic operas. In the Cantate burlesque, the themes of rural politics and bucolic sexuality form a heady mix within its bawdy text, while the Coffee Cantata explores the perils of addiction, and the lengths that our heroine, Lieschen, will go to secure the thing she craves most. The Feinstein Ensemble are joined by the London Bach Singers and soloists Faye Newton, Charles Daniels and Ben Davies for an evening of comic drama, with English surtitles to show the quick-witted repartee of Picander’s poetry in real time. The programme is completed with the beautiful tenor cantata ‘Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht’. For future LCMS Sunday concerts, please visit The London Chamber Music Society Kings Place, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet 'Peasant Cantata', BWV 212
Johann Sebastian Bach – Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht 'Coffee Cantata', BWV 211
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cantata 'Ich armer Mensch', BWV 55
Performers
Feinstein Ensemble
London Bach Singers
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Programme Note
A rare opportunity to hear JS Bach’s ‘Peasant’ and ‘Coffee’ Cantatas: secular and satirical masterpieces, nothing less than comic operas.
In the Cantate burlesque, the themes of rural politics and bucolic sexuality form a heady mix within its bawdy text, while the Coffee Cantata explores the perils of addiction, and the lengths that our heroine, Lieschen, will go to secure the thing she craves most.
The Feinstein Ensemble are joined by the London Bach Singers and soloists Faye Newton, Charles Daniels and Ben Davies for an evening of comic drama, with English surtitles to show the quick-witted repartee of Picander’s poetry in real time. The programme is completed with the beautiful tenor cantata ‘Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht’.
For future LCMS Sunday concerts, please visit The London Chamber Music Society
