CANTATES SANS FILET (THE COMPLETE CANTATAS OF BACH)

EGLISE SAINT EXUPERE, Allées Jules Guesde

A meeting with the great Johann Sebastian Bach, whose immense body of work remains largely to be explored: the Toulouse Baroque Ensemble has over the years traversed its some 200 cantatas, a personal diary of a man who practised his art with the humility and the uncompromising standard of a skilled craftsman. With score in hand, the musicians and singers gather for a public-rehearsal one and a half hours before performing the cantata. The artistic director Michel Brun punctuates this encounter with explanations and anecdotes that plunge you into the Baroque era and the oeuvre…