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Bach's Coffee Cantata
Category: Music
Duration: 00:46:58
Publish Date: 2021-10-02 16:20:00
Description: 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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