rssI never know what I do feel. -- I don't think that matters, provided one doesn't try to persuade one's self into appropriate feelings. - D.L. Sayers
2008, March 16
For Palm Sunday
Cantata BWV 182, Himmelskönig sei willkommen
An early work by Bach, March 25, 1714, his first cantata as concertmaster in the Weimar court.
Alfred Dürr in The Cantatas of J.S. Bach. says "...we are offered a youthful, tender shaping of even the smallest motive, an instrumental scoring chosen with careful cosideration, and an inexhaustible abundance of inspiration".
BWV 182 notes on Emmanuel Music
BWV 182 notes on Bach Cantatas Website
This performance of BWV 182 is by Pieter Jan Leusink, conductor for Brilliant Classics, available in the Bach Edition. The sample has been prepared for educational purposes only, any other use is strictly forbidden.
BWV 182The "chorale prelude" BWV 182.7 is a wonderful canonic chorus.
