This festive and colourful cantata for orchestra, chorus, and soloists was written for first performance on Ascension Day in May 1725. Three hundred years later, it is the centrepiece of this celebratory concert exploring Bach’s compositions from this post-Easter period in 1725, together with a pair of new works composed in response to Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein.
The manuscript, which has been bequeathed to the Bodleian Library and is one of only four of the composer’s manuscripts in the UK. will be on display in the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries (opposite the Sheldonian Theatre).
