JS Bach - Suites and Cantatas | Devon Baroque

The incredibly rich resource of JS Bach’s 240 or so cantatas could keep Devon Baroque occupied for many years. Here we perform just two of the most well-known. The two cantatas are for solo singer and orchestra and perhaps represent Bach’s most creative writing and interplay between voice and instruments. The concert also includes two of his four orchestral suites of dances in which the strings are variously joined by oboes, bassoon, trumpets and timpani. Suite No 3 includes the Air which has become famous in an arrangement known as 'Air on a G string'.