JL Bach - The Leipzig Cantatas
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Label: Ricercar
Cat No: RIC482
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 20th February 2026
Contents
Works
Darum saet euch Gerechtigkeit, JLB4Darum will ich auch erwahlen, JLB3
Denn du wirst meine Seele nicht in der Holle lassen, JLB21
Der Gottlosen Arbeit wird fehlen, JLB2
Der Herr wird ein Neues im Lande erschaffen, JLB13
Die Weisheit kommt nicht in eine boshafte Seele, JLB14
Die mit Tranen saen, JLB8
Durch sein Erkenntnis, JLB15
Er ist aus der Angst und Gericht genommen, JLB10
Er machet uns lebendig, JLB11
Gott ist unser Zuversicht, JLB1
Ich aber ging fur dir uber, JLB16
Ich will meinen Geist in euch geben, JLB7
Ja, mir hast du Arbeit gemacht, JLB5
Mache dich auf, werde licht, JLB9
Siehe, ich will meinen Engel senden, JLB17
Und ich will ihnen einen einigen Hirten erwecken, JLB12
Wie lieblich sind auf den Bergen, JLB6
Artists
Anna-Lena Elbert (soprano)Tabea Mitterbauer (soprano)
Carine Tinney (soprano)
Flore Van Meerssche (soprano)
William Shelton (countertenor)
Tobias Knaus (countertenor)
Michael Mogl (tenor)
Richard Resch (tenor)
Sebastian Myrus (bass)
Micha Matthaus (bass)
Capella Sollertia
Conductor
Johanna SollerWorks
Darum saet euch Gerechtigkeit, JLB4Darum will ich auch erwahlen, JLB3
Denn du wirst meine Seele nicht in der Holle lassen, JLB21
Der Gottlosen Arbeit wird fehlen, JLB2
Der Herr wird ein Neues im Lande erschaffen, JLB13
Die Weisheit kommt nicht in eine boshafte Seele, JLB14
Die mit Tranen saen, JLB8
Durch sein Erkenntnis, JLB15
Er ist aus der Angst und Gericht genommen, JLB10
Er machet uns lebendig, JLB11
Gott ist unser Zuversicht, JLB1
Ich aber ging fur dir uber, JLB16
Ich will meinen Geist in euch geben, JLB7
Ja, mir hast du Arbeit gemacht, JLB5
Mache dich auf, werde licht, JLB9
Siehe, ich will meinen Engel senden, JLB17
Und ich will ihnen einen einigen Hirten erwecken, JLB12
Wie lieblich sind auf den Bergen, JLB6
Artists
Anna-Lena Elbert (soprano)Tabea Mitterbauer (soprano)
Carine Tinney (soprano)
Flore Van Meerssche (soprano)
William Shelton (countertenor)
Tobias Knaus (countertenor)
Michael Mogl (tenor)
Richard Resch (tenor)
Sebastian Myrus (bass)
Micha Matthaus (bass)
Capella Sollertia
Conductor
Johanna SollerAbout
Leipzig, 1726. Johann Sebastian Bach had been Cantor at the Thomaskirche for three years, and in February of that year he interrupted his regular production of cantatas to perform eighteen cantatas by his cousin Johann Ludwig Bach in the city's main churches. Johann Ludwig was Kapellmeister at the court of Meiningen at that time. These works have survived solely thanks to the copies that Johann Sebastian made of them, and thus testify to the high esteem in which he held his cousin's compositions. Capella Sollertia now presents the first ever recording of these works.
Sound/Video
Reviews
I think this is a major rediscovery, which deserves to be on any best new recordings of the year shortlist, and it’s only February. (Record of the Week)Record Review (BBC Radio 3) 7 February 2026
The box offers a treasure chest of delights, dispatched with scrupulous care and tremendous vim by Johanna Soller’s Capella Sollertia, an ensemble particularly blessed with agile soprano soloists, pure in tone even when navigating the Italianate leaps and twiddles that Ludwig’s vocal writing demands. ... The performers’ enjoyment of Ludwig’s music is palpable and discovering these 18 cantatas has given me five of the happiest hours of my listening life.The Times
[Johann Ludwig Bach’s] music shows an inspirational gift for melody, a sensitivity to text and a knack for turning Lutheran doctrinal poetry into first-rate music drama. ... Unbelievably, Capella Sollertia’s thoroughly idiomatic performances represent the first ever recordings of these cantatas, nearly five-and-a-half hours of music, some of which could easily pass for the work of JS Bach himself. ... Johanna Soller’s conducting is incisive yet flexible, while her splendid lineup of fresh-voiced soloists basks in sumptuous sound thanks to Ricercar’s scrupulous engineering. Clive PagetThe Guardian 20 February 2025
If one wonders why Johann Ludwig – Bach’s distant cousin, employed 150 miles away at the court of Meiningen – was so favoured by Johann Sebastian, these 18 cantatas provide the answer. ... Johanna Soller and Capella Sollertia engage unerringly with this extensive project – a full five hours of music – unceasing advocates for an oeuvre that has, until now, remarkably escaped our attention. ... this seminal project is a revelation in the sheer weight of first-rate ‘Bach’, previously under the radar, and now in premiere recordings delivered with exceptional attentiveness and care. Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (Recording of the Month)Gramophone February 2026
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