The cantata ‘Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit’ begins the new year with vigorous resolve. Inspired by the story of the faithful centurion it was composed in 1725 in Leipzig for the third Sunday after Advent.
‘Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan’ is a remarkable cantata that appears to have been performed at an unspecified special occasion in Leipzig in 1734 (we’ll hear another such work at March’s event).
A very special season finale of Bach, the Universe and Everything features one of Bach’s most monumental cantatas and marks the 250th anniversary of the death of one of Britain’s most phenomenal Enlightenment minds.