EPISODE · Oct 2, 2021 · 46 MIN
Bach's Coffee Cantata
from Record Review Podcast · host BBC Radio 3
Simon Heighes compares recordings of Bach's Coffee Cantata and chooses his favourite.Among Bach's secular cantatas, perhaps the most famous and frequently recorded is Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht – the Coffee Cantata – BWV 211. Probably composed in 1734 for a performance at Leipzig's Zimmermann Coffee House with the student group collegium musicum, the comic cantata satirises the Saxon obsession with coffee, depicting a family dispute between father and daughter, Schlendrian and Liesgen, at odds about the benefits of the hot drink.
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Bach's Coffee Cantata
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