Sydney Cantata Project - Now I Come
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Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
The Sydney Cantata Project closes its 2026 season at the beautiful All Saints’ Woollahra, with an afternoon of Bach on period instruments.
📅 Saturday 21 November
🕒 3:00 PM
📍 All Saints’ Anglican Church, Woollahra
Our final concert for the year features an instrument rarely heard today: the slide trumpet. It is a brass instrument with a soft, vocal tone, and Bach used it to double the chorale melody in some of his Leipzig cantatas, including both on this programme.
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 62 is a cantata for the first Sunday of Advent. It is based on Martin Luther’s (1483–1546) hymn of the same name, which goes back to a much older Latin hymn. Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe BWV 162 takes the parable of the wedding feast as its subject.
We also perform Ja, mir hast du Arbeit gemacht JLB 5 by Johann Ludwig Bach (1677–1731), a cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) who worked at the court in Meiningen. J.S. Bach thought highly enough of this cantata to perform it in Leipzig.
The concert falls a week before Advent Sunday, with a team of leading Australian early music performers.
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