About the Performance
JS Bach's cantatas lie at the heart of his musical output; a huge body of vocal and instrumental music composed to enhance and enrich religious ceremonies and social occasions.
Over two concerts the Ricercar Consort explores some of Bach's earliest cantatas with an outstanding line-up of singers. Directed from the viol by Philippe Pierlot, the concerts feature Bach's funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit also known as Actus tragicus and Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut with soprano soloist Katharine Fuge.
'Pierlot is one of today's more thoughtful Bach interpreters and his Ricercar Consort respond with ever more intensity.' Gramaphone
This event will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Lunchtime Concerts programme at 1:00pm, 8 September 2009. The programme will then be available for streaming and download for one week at bbc.co.uk/iplayer.
