For those of you who have been following this blog for a while now, there’s a beautiful new recording of a pretty aria for this 20th Sunday after Trinity: “Ich bin herrlich, ich bin schön” from Cantata 49 Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen from 1726. Watch Dorothee Mields perform this gem with the Netherlands Bach Society here on YouTube. This live registration (recorded during Covid times so without audience) is extra noteworthy because of a rare appearance of the fabulous Marcel Ponseele on oboe d’amore. For more information (in English!) about this cantata and especially the instruments in this aria, visit the website of the Netherlands Bach Society here and click on “Story”.

Why do all cantatas for this Sunday talk about dressing up? Read about it in my post from 2020, with links to one of the best lectures by Rudolf Lutz of the J.S. Bach Foundation in Switzerland (with English subtitles).

And read my post from 2016 to learn more out about the wedding these cantatas are associated with.

Wieneke Gorter, October 21, 2023.