Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Benedict's favorite Bach cantata



According to Sandro Magister, it's BWV 140.  Heck, they're all good.

2 comments:

  1. That is a fine and informative article in Chiesa on Cantata 140 but it is erroneous when it states the Lutheran faithful would "listen in silence" to Bach Cantatas. Not so: most (not all) the Bach Cantatas end with a chorale, usually the one on which earlier movements were based. There the congregants were expected to sing along with the choir, from memory, in parts[!]. Probably inconceivable to the Catholic editors of Chiesa but I dearly wish that protestant tradition might find its way into Catholicism. I bet the Pope does too.

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  2. It would be lovely, and a vast improvement over contemporary Catholic practice in that area.

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