Dorset Bach Cantata Club
Our Repertoire
Works we have studied, sung and occasionally performed:
of Johann Sebastian Bach's music:
Any of 200 sacred cantatas*
16 secular cantatas
30 or more sacred choral works including masses, passions, oratorios, liturgies, motets and songs. (Many of these categories overlap.)
* As of 2008 we have studied more than half of these works.
of his family, his contemporaries, and others:
Sacred choral works by:
Johann Ludwig Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Dietrich Buxtehude
Georg Frideric Handel
Heinrich Schütz
Andreas Hammerschmidt
Gabrieli
Palestrina
Our orchestra has also played works by Handel, Corelli, Purcell and other Baroque composers.