Cantata Information
Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
Created 4 March 1714, Weimar period, Occasion: 3rd Sunday of Lent or Oculi, Trinitatis VII or 7th Sunday after Trinitatis.
BWV2 (1990 catalogue): BWV 54.
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Videos with this cantata
Masaaki Suzuki
Published 20 August 2021J. S. Bach - Cantate: BWV12, BWV54, BWV162, BWV182 - M.Suzuki (CD 03/55)
Bach-Stiftung
Published 4 April 2020J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 54 ""Widerstehe doch der Sünde"" (J.S. Bach Foundation)
Bach-Stiftung workshop
Published 2 April 2020Bach erklärt: Workshop zur Kantate BWV 54 ""Widerstehe doch der Sünde"" (J.S. Bach-Stiftung)
Gustav Leonhardt
Published 8 September 2019Bach - Cantate BWV 54 - Widerstehe doch der Sünde
Glenn Gould, Russell Oberlin (1962)
Published 17 August 2019Glenn Gould and Russell Oberlin perform Bach
La Petite Bande
Published 16 August 2019J. S. Bach - The Complete Liturgical Year in 64 Cantatas - S. Kuijken (CD 6/19)
John Eliot Gardiner
Published 24 August 2018J. S. Bach - Cantatas BWV 182, BWV 54, BWV 1 - J. E. Gardiner (Vol.21 CD2)
Kurt Thomas, Marga Höffgen (1961)
Published 14 March 2018Marga Höffgen ""Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV 54"" für Agnes
Arjan van Baest, David Cohen
Published 5 May 2017BWV 54 - Widerstehe doch der Sünde
Ton Koopman
Published 2 September 2016J. S. Bach – Cantatas: BWV54, BWV161, BWV208 – T. Koopman (Vol3 CD3)
Ton Koopman workshop
Published 15 July 2016BWV 54 - Widerstehe doch der Sünde (Scrolling)
Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort
Published 18 September 2014J. S. Bach: Widerstehe doch der Sünde (Henri Ledroit)
Pastuszka, Wessel
Published 8 February 2014J. S. Bach - ""Widerstehe doch der Sünde"" BWV 54, Kai Wessel - countertenor
All of Bach
Published 1 February 2014BWV 54 performed by the Netherlands Bach Society conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen Geertekerk, Utrecht
Helmut Rilling
Published 15 September 2013Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantaten - (BWV 54), (BWV 55), (BWV 56), (BWV 57)
Philippe Herreweghe
Published 22 March 2011J. S. Bach (1685-1750) Widerstehe doch der Sünde (Cantata BWV 54)