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