What’s the point of J.S. Bach’s sacred cantatas? – Thelma Lovell

Speaker: Thelma Lovell

Designed to be part of Lutheran church services in eighteenth-century Leipzig, Bach’s cantatas brought drama and colour to the beliefs and attitudes arising from a particular religious outlook. It is the music that still draws listeners worldwide, though Bach – genuinely devout – intended it to serve the message of the words. Living in a different world, three centuries later, how do we process the integration of art with faith that we find in the cantatas?

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