abstract:The Bach cantatas project of Ton Koopman was the first complete recording of all the cantatas, including the 21 secular cantatas with his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. The project began in 1995 and was completed in 2005 on 67 CDs.
More than half of the sacred cantatas were written between 1723 and 1726, when Bach was in the early years of his long, and often unrewarding, appointment as the cantor of the Thomaskirche, in Leipzig.