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’.

We are extremely grateful to the Continuo Foundation for supporting this project.