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Beskrivning

The Coffee Cantata (BA 10211) and the Peasant Cantata (BA 10212) both on librettos by Picander , are among the best-known and most frequently performed of Bach’:s secular cantatas.

Written in or around 1733, the Coffee Cantata deals humorously with the importance of the newly fashionable beverage. This is demonstrated in the soprano aria “:Ah, how sweet the coffee tastes, lovelier than a thousand kisses, milder than Muscatel”:.

The Peasant Cantata of 1742, Bach’:s last datable cantata, is a musical description of folk life.

It was composed as a tribute to Picander’:s superior, Carl Heinrich von Dieskau , who had inherited the family estate in 1742.

Both cantatas reveal Bach’:s mastery in their unusual subject-matter, formal design, and musical workmanship. Now they appear in separate editions based on the “:New Bach Edition”: with straightforward and easy-to-play piano reductions by Andreas Köhs.

- Urtext of the “:New Bach Edition”:
- Straightforward and easy-to-play piano reduction