Please help me identify a Cantata.

RamseyJ · Newbie Alert Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 1

Hello, I hope this isn't a needle in a haystack kind of enquiry.

I heard a wonderful and beautiful Bach cantata the other month (needle in a haystack).

Can you please help identify it for me?

What really stood out was the following... Woodwinds, perhaps flute and oboe, playing a very distinct and prominent pulse of quarter or perhaps eighth notes across the span of one of the movements. They were quite stacatto, and tended to sit on a single note for a number of measures before moving if I'm not mistaken. The melodic line was quite different and distinct, but this woodwind pulse was certainly very distinct, and incredibly expressive and noticeable.

Is that too vague? Was the 'pulse' device one he commonly used? I'm just recently beginning to explore the cantatas, but I have yet to come across another of his cantatas with the pulse as I describe it above.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

I'm new to the forum. Go Bach! He's a favourite of mine, along with Handel, Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven. Perhaps it's more 'chic' to say Bartok, Schoenberg, and Scriabin, but I have to go with my heart!

UteS · Newbie Alert Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

Try No. 39, "Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot".