Cantatas Without a Safety Net (the complete cantatas by Bach)

EGLISE SAINT EXUPERE, Allées Jules Guesde

A meeting with the great Johann Sebastian Bach, whose vast body of work remains largely to be explored: the Ensemble Baroque de Toulouse has, over the years, performed around 200 cantatas, a diary of a man who practiced his art with the humility and the uncompromising standards of a skilled craftsman. Score in hand, the musicians and singers gather for a public-rehearsal an hour and a half 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…