J.S. Bach: Six Cantatas

The complete Philips and L'Oiseau-Lyre recordings of Bach cantatas made by Sir Neville Marriner, reissued together for the first time.

Bach's cantatas vary enormously in scale and style, ranging from festal works featuring elaborate choral movements and large instrumental ensembles including trumpets and drums, to more meditative cantatas for a single voice and only a handful of instruments. The six examples gathered in this new Eloquence reissue tend towards the latter, more intimate vein of expression, but they also encompass stylistic poles defined by varying purposes as either a sacred exposition of Scriptural principles or a rollicking secular entertainment