Credits:

Karl Richter, Edith Mathis, Lotte Schadle, Hertha Topper, Anna Reynolds, Peter Schreier, Ernst Haefliger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Theo Adam, Munich Bach Orchestra, Munich Bach Choir

Description:

In 2018, the 333rd anniversary of Bach's birth, Richter's collection of Bach cantatas is re-released with Japanese lyrics and bilingual translation. No. 171 is the last of the four extant New Year's cantatas and was reportedly first performed on January 1, 1729. No. 65 is a cantata written in 1724 for January 6, the last holiday of the Christmas season.No. 124 is a cantata written for the first Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany in 1725 (January 7, 1725) and No. 13 is a cantata written for the second Sunday after the Epiphany in 1726 (January 20, 1726). (C)RS