Discussing Bach 8 (January 2025)

Published on 13 January 2025

Analytical Perspectives on the Bach Cantatas

Editors: Andrew Frampton, Barbara M. Reul, and Ruth Tatlow

An edited live discussion recorded on 15 June 2024, with Daniel R. Melamed, Ruth Tatlow, and John Butt

Video with optional subtitles (CCs)

Editorial Introduction (full text)

Authorised Transcript (full text)

Further reading

Discussing Bach 7 (September 2024), ‘The Future of Bach Performance’.

Alfred Dürr, The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text, Rev. and trans. Richard D. P. Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Robin A. Leaver, Bach’s Theological Library (Neuhausen: Hänssler-Verlag, 1983).

Ruth Tatlow, Bach’s Church Cantatas (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025).

Editorial Team: Andrew Frampton, Barbara M. Reul, and Ruth Tatlow

Technical Support: Larry Molinaro and Yo Tomita
Production Support: Larry Molinaro, John Harrington, and Philipp Marx.
With thanks to the Bach-Archiv Leipzig