With the Bach Cantatas app you have an extensive reference of all sacral and secular vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The app has a collection of all cantatas complete with arias, recitatives, choirs and chorales. Containing the instrumentation, text, librettists and scriptural references and interactive parody references for the individual cantata movements.
With a few swipes you get all informations for a cantata at hand.
Sort the cantatas for title, opus, designation, date of creation or current position in the liturgical year.
Through the search field you can find cantatas for instruments, designation, movement text, librettist or even scriptural reference within seconds.
Take a look at the score of the Bach Society Edition (Alte Bachausgabe), quite clearly arranged directly to each cantata. In addition, the app contains links to the autographs of bach-digital.de. Thus, you are only a fingertip away from the Bach original sources. The scores of the Bach Society Edition will be downloaded from the Internet as required. For searching bach-digital.de you also need an Internet connection.
With the search catalog you find arias, sinfonias or chorals sorted by solo part oder instrumentation. Choose a predefined search from the catalog or create your own criterias with the interactive user interface.
In addition, the app contains all chorales used by J.S.Bach including all verses.
For even more context the app contains the entire (!) Bible in the King James translation and an interactive biblical concordance for the cantatas. It has never been easier to discover information on the use of Bible verses in Bach's cantatas.
The Cantatas app comes with a complete database for all of it's content. No internet connection is required to research a cantata. It even contains the complete epistel and gospel texts for all feasts of the liturgical year, designated to each cantata.
This is a wonderful gift of reference and extremely helpful. The only thing that I find very inconvenient is that they do not include the translations of the text, which would be very helpful. I’ve tried to distinguish what would be better about this app versus the website. I would use this app much, much more and it would be better than the website if the translations into English etc. we’re included! Please do so!! Otherwise, this is an amazing and life giving app!!!!
Helpful, Thorough, and Easy to Use
ttmeyers
I couldn’t help but download this when I came across it, given how much time I spend listening to Bach (especially his choral music). It’s very handy to have all of the texts and other details of the cantatas on hand. The app holds practically all the information you could want about each cantata and also makes it easy to search and sort them. Can’t remember the title of cantata Nr. 79? Don’t know the catalogue number for „Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele“? Want to know which cantatas were written for Advent? All easy. It’s awesome. The advanced searches can handle movement types, voicing, and instrumentation (including pre-built searches for, e.g., sinfonias or soprano–tenor duets). There's a database of chorale texts, too, that tells which cantatas use each chorale. I really like the view that groups the cantatas “Starting today in the liturgical year”. It's an easy way to decide on a cantata (or three) to listen to each week when I'm out of ideas. Plus, the developer responds directly to comments and requests. I emailed him recently about a couple of pieces that weren't in the app, and he responded the next day to acknowledge my request and give me a rough timeline for an update with the additions.
Translations would make this app perfect.
Glen111
If this app had English translations of the original text, it would be much more useful.
- Reinstates the liturgy for the 4th Sunday after Trinity
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Version 1.9.15
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