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JL Bach - The Leipzig Cantatas
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Label: Ricercar
Cat No: RIC482
Barcode: 5400439004825
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 20th February 2026
I think this is a major rediscovery, which deserves to be on any best new recordings of the year shortlist, and it’s only February. 
[Johann Ludwig Bach’s] music shows an inspirational gift for melody, a sensitivity to text and a knack for turning Lutheran doctrinal poetry into first-rate music drama. ... Unbelievably, Capella Sollertia’s thoroughly idiomatic performances represent the first ever recordings of these cantatas, nearly five-and-a-half hours of music, some of which could easily pass for the work of JS Bach himself. ... Johanna Soller’s conducting is incisive yet flexible, while her splendid lineup of fresh-voiced soloists basks in sumptuous sound thanks to Ricercar’s scrupulous engineering. 
If one wonders why Johann Ludwig – Bach’s distant cousin, employed 150 miles away at the court of Meiningen – was so favoured by Johann Sebastian, these 18 cantatas provide the answer. ... Johanna Soller and Capella Sollertia engage unerringly with this extensive project – a full five hours of music – unceasing advocates for an oeuvre that has, until now, remarkably escaped our attention. ... this seminal project is a revelation in the sheer weight of first-rate ‘Bach’, previously under the radar, and now in premiere recordings delivered with exceptional attentiveness and care. 
The box offers a treasure chest of delights, dispatched with scrupulous care and tremendous vim by Johanna Soller’s Capella Sollertia, an ensemble particularly blessed with agile soprano soloists, pure in tone even when navigating the Italianate leaps and twiddles that Ludwig’s vocal writing demands. ... The performers’ enjoyment of Ludwig’s music is palpable and discovering these 18 cantatas has given me five of the happiest hours of my listening life.
