Ensemble Masques

Movements:
1. Aria (bass): Ich habe genug
2. Recitative (bass): Ich habe genug! Mein Trost ist nur allein
3. Aria (bass): Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
4. Recitative (bass): Mein Gott! wenn...Read more

Movements:
1. Aria (bass): Ich habe genug
2. Recitative (bass): Ich habe genug! Mein Trost ist nur allein
3. Aria (bass): Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
4. Recitative (bass): Mein Gott! wenn kömmt das schöne: Nun!
5. Aria (bass): Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod

Original title: Ich habe genug, also spelled Ich habe genung in the sources. Solo cantata for the Purification of Mary, first performed in Leipzig on 2 February 1727.
The original C-minor version is for bass, oboe, strings and basso continuo. Later versions use other voice types; the soprano version substitutes transverse flute for oboe. The librettist is unknown; the text draws on the biblical Song of Simeon.

The previous description cited at least 164 recordings; this is a historical estimate, not a current count.

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Movements:
1. [Allegro]
2. Largo
3. Presto

Original title: Concerto for two harpsichords in C major.

Dating is not uniform: alongside 1733-1734, ~1732-1735 is also proposed. These datings may...Read more

Movements:
1. [Allegro]
2. Largo
3. Presto

Original title: Concerto for two harpsichords in C major.

Dating is not uniform: alongside 1733-1734, ~1732-1735 is also proposed. These datings may refer to different stages of composition or versions.

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Movements:
1. [no tempo]
2. Andante
3. Allegro assai

Arrangement Concerto for Two Violins BWV 1043

Movements:
1. Allegro
2. Largo ovvero Adagio
3. Allegro

Arrangement of the lost concerto for two violins and oboe and violin

Sweet, exclude mee not, nor be divided
From him that ere long must bed thee:
All thy maiden doubts Law hath decided;
Sure wee are, and I must wed thee.
Presume then yet a little more:
Here`s...Read more

Sweet, exclude mee not, nor be divided
From him that ere long must bed thee:
All thy maiden doubts Law hath decided;
Sure wee are, and I must wed thee.
Presume then yet a little more:
Here`s the way, barre not the dore.

Tenants, to fulfill their Land-lords pleasure,
Pay their rent before the quarter:
`Tis my case, if you it rightly measure;
Put mee not then off with laughter.
Consider then a little more:
Here`s the way to all my store.

Why were dores in loves despight devised?
Are not Lawes enough restrayning?
Women are most apt to be surprised
Sleeping, or sleepe wisely fayning.
Then grace me yet a little more:
Here`s the way, barre not the dore.

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The peaceful westerne winde
The winter stormes hath tam`d,
And nature in each kinde
The kinde heat hath inflam`d.
The forward buds so sweetly breathe
Out of their earthy bowers,
That heav`n,...Read more

The peaceful westerne winde
The winter stormes hath tam`d,
And nature in each kinde
The kinde heat hath inflam`d.
The forward buds so sweetly breathe
Out of their earthy bowers,
That heav`n, which viewes their pompe beneath,
Would faine be deckt with flowers.

See how the morning smiles
On her bright easterne hill,
And with soft steps beguiles
Them that lie slumbring still.
The musicke-loving birds are come
From cliffes and rockes unknowne,
To see the trees and briers blome
That late were over-flowne.

What Saturne did destroy,
Loves Queene revives againe;
And now her naked boy
Doth in the fields remaine:
Where he such pleasing change doth view
In ev`ry living thing,
As if the world were borne anew
To gratifie the Spring.

If all things life present,
Why die my comforts then?
Why suffers my content?
Am I the worst of men?
O beautie, be not thou accus`d
Too justly in this case:
Unkindly if true love be us`d,
`Twill yeeld thee little grace.

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Incidental Music “Oedipus”.

Libretto by Nahum Tate after Virgil’s “Aeneid”. The date of composition remains debated.

Sonatas in Three Parts (c.1680)

Sonatas in Three Parts (c.1680)

Harpsichord, violin or flute, and viola da gamba or a second violin.

1. La Coulicam (Rondement)
2. La Livri (Rondeau Gracieux)
3. Le Vezinet (Gaiement, Sans Vitesse)

Harpsichord, violin or flute, and viola da gamba or a second violin.

1. La Laborde (Rondement)
2. La Boucon (Air, gracieux)
3. L`agacante (Rondement)
4. Premier menuet, Deuxieme menuet (en rondeau)

Harpsichord, violin or flute, and viola da gamba or a second violin.

1. La Poupliniere
2. La Timide
3. Tambourin