Last episode we introduced Bach’s second cantata cycle from 1724. We saw in the first cantatas of the cycle, Bach used a church melody as the cantus firmus first in the sopranos, then the altos.

This episode we will explore the next two cantatas where Bach sets the cantus firmus in the tenors in BWV 7, and the basses in BWV 135.

About the melody you may know as “O Sacred Head Surrounded”

Pieces heard:

BWV 7, Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (Full Performance)

BWV 135, Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder (Full Performance)

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