Bach Akademie Charlotte presents two of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most beloved solo cantatas, featuring veteran soloists Edmund Milly (bass) and Margaret Carpenter Haigh (soprano). Also featured is Bach's Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060R. By the early 1700s, The ‘Vivaldian’ solo concerto was causing a stir throughout Europe, including Germany. Bach's Concerto for Violin and Oboe is a reconstruction of the supposed original form of the concerto for two harpsichords. Ich habe genug, BWV 82 "I have enough") is a church cantata that conveys the exhausted soul’s yearning for death’s sweet release, expressed enchantingly in the well-known ‘slumber aria’ Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen (slumber, you tired eyes). Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199, one of Bach’s most overtly outgoing works, portrays a soul grievously tormented by a life of sin. The work’s apotheosis highlights the prayer of the tax collector, “God be gracious to me, a sinner!” in a moment of heightened drama and expression.

Oboist Kristin Olson joins us as guest soloist in both cantatas and performs alongside our very own Aisslinn Nosky in Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060R.

Johann Sebastian BACH Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060R

JS BACH Ich habe genug, BWV 82

JS BACH Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199