Cantata 110


Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Nativity, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, 1475

Unser Mund sei voll Lachens
May our mouth be filled with laughter
Cantata 110
BWV 110

Event: Cantata for Christmas Day
1st Performance: December 25, 1725, Leipzig
Readings: Epistle: Titus 2: 11-14 / Isaiah 9: 2-7; Gospel: Luke 2: 1-14
Text: After Psalm 126: 2-3 (Mvt. 1); Jeremiah 10: 6 (Mvt. 3); Luke 2: 14 (Mvt. ); Kaspar Füger (Mvt. 7); Georg Christian Lehms (Mvts. 2, 4, 6) [according to W. Murray Young: Christian Weiss, Sr., Picander and J.S. Bach are also suggested]
Chorale Text: Wir Christenleut haben jetz und Freud

Click to read brief commentaries by Simon Crouch for Classical Net, Erik Eriksson for All Music, Bethlehem and Julian Mincham.

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Performance of Soprano: Joanne Lunn; Counter-tenor: William Towers; Tenor: James Gilchrist; Bass: Peter Harvey; Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner conducting.  Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage at St Bartholomew’s Church, New York.



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Performance of Boy Sopranos: Wilhelm Wiedl & Stefan Frangoulis (Soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor); Alto: Paul Esswood; Tenor: Kurt Equiluz; Basses: Siegfried Lorenz & Ruud van der Meer; Tölzer Knabenchor (Chorus Master: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden) / Concentus Musicus Wien; Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting.




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Performance of Soprano: Ruth Holton; Alto: Sytse Buwalda; Tenor: Knut Schoch; Bass: Bas Ramselaar; Holland Boys Choir / Netherlands Bach Collegium; Pieter Jan Leusink conducting.  Recorded at St. Nicolaschurch, Elburg, Holland.




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