Gaechinger Cantorey * Vision Bach 9 [New CD] LP Die Cut Sleeve Sérénade Mélancolique

Sérénade Mélancolique

whom The New York Review of Books recently described as "one of American music's great Romantics and a lifelong seeker of the sublime

and then quietly disappeared from the scene

The Austrian tenor Alexander Kaimbacher and Anna Sushon on piano present the resulting entertaining

Gaechinger Cantorey * Vision Bach 9 [New CD] LP Die Cut Sleeve Sérénade MélancoliqueLike the Christmas and Whitsun festivals, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus was spread out over three feast days. A cantata was sung at each day's church service; Bach, whose ambition in his first year was to present the worshippers of Leipzig with works he had written himself, was thus kept busy. Most of his work in 1724 undoubtedly went into the St John Passion (BWV 245. 1), performed for the first time on Good Friday that year, two days