Cantata Information
Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21
Created 17 June 1714, Weimar period, Occasion: Trinitatis III or 3rd Sunday after Trinitatis.
BWV2 (1990 catalogue): BWV 21.1.
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A collective group of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by Craig Smith. It was created specifically to perform the complete cycle of over 200 sacred cantatas of J. S. Bach in the liturgical setting for which they were intended, an endeavor twice completed and a tradition which continues today. Has both notes on cantatas and translated librettos.
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Videos with this cantata
Masaaki Suzuki
Published 17 September 2021J. S. Bach - Cantatas BWV 147, 21 - M. Suzuki (CD 12/55)
Masaaki Suzuki
Published 27 August 2021J.S. Bach - Cantatas: BWV21 BWV3 - M.Suzuki (CD 06/55)
Bach-Stiftung
Published 5 June 2021J. S. Bach - Cantata BWV 21 ""Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"" (J. S. Bach Foundation)
Helmut Rilling workshop
Published 3 June 2021Workshop zur Kantate BWV 21 ""Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"" (J.S. Bach-Stiftung)
All of Bach
Published 22 April 2021BWV 21 performed by the Netherlands Bach Society conducted by Shunske Sato TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion
Published 10 April 2020J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 21 Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - Was betrübst du dich
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Published 6 September 2019Bach - Cantate BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis
Karl Richter
Published 6 July 2019BCA099 BWV21 Cantata for 3rd Sunday after Trinity Richter 1969
John Eliot Gardiner
Published 24 November 2017J. S. Bach - Cantatas BWV 21, 135; Concerto BWV 1044 - J. E. Gardiner (Vol2 CD2)
Ton Koopman
Published 23 July 2016J.S. Bach: Cantatas 21, 131– T. Koopmann (Vol1 CD1)
Diego Fasolis
Published 28 February 2016BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (Scrolling)
Helmut Rilling
Published 12 August 2013Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantaten - (BWV 21), (BWV 22)
Purcell Quartet
Published 12 June 2013J. S. Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21) (Purcell Quartet et al.)
Philippe Herreweghe
Published 9 January 2012J.S. Bach / Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (Herreweghe)