Les Promenades musicales du Pays d'Auge, 32e Edition : Cantates de Weimar

After last season's youth cantatas, the Ensemble Correspondances moves on to Weimar in 1714. Bach felt comfortable there, he was better paid than at his previous post, and he and his wife Maria Barbara had their first children. and he and his wife Maria Barbara had their first children. Above all, the the ducal library was rich with scores from Italy and France, Bach was developing Bach developed all kinds of secular and sacred music, innovating and experimenting. No doubt the great sorrow, weeping and lamentations of the texts, but rather the fervour the fervour of the trumpets and timpani, the oboes and violins. and violins. Admittedly, the task of church and court composer is superhuman, but his music but his music makes it clear that we must imagine Bach happy.