VOCES8: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 - JS Bach

Session footage from VOCES8’s recording of cantata 150 ’Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich’ by JS Bach. VOCES8 is recording with the Academy of Ancient Music (Bojan Čičič, leader), directed by Barnaby Smith. The track forms part of the VOCES8’s 15th anniversary recording project, ’After Silence’, and can be found on all digital music platforms. For more information about the album project, visit Notes by Paul Williamson Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, known only from secondary sources, is probably Bach’s earliest surviving cantata, written while he was organist at the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt (1703–7). The work’s modest scoring reflects the limited musical resources at his disposal; it is also an old- style Protestant cantata, untouched by the reforms of Erdmann Neumeister, who advocated the introduction of madrigalesque poetry, operatic recitatives and da capo arias. BWV 150 takes a more restrained Lutheran approach, setti