The Early Music Show - Bach's Wedding Cantata Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten

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Fiona Talkington introduces a performance of Bach's 'Wedding Cantata,' Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten and finds out whether Anna Magdalena might have sung this very cantata at her wedding to JS Bach in 1721. The cantata's central aria: 'To practise sweet courtship, to cuddle joyously,' features a solo oboe. Today's programme also includes an oboe concerto and a suite for seven instruments written a few years after Bach's cantata.

Telemann
Oboe Concerto in D minor, TWV 51:d1

Bach
Cantata: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202

Zelenka
Overture a 7 in F, ZWV 188

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Katharina Arfken (oboe)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor).

Published on Sunday, 18th October 2015.

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