Duration
66 Min
Harnoncourt conducts Bach: Coffee Cantata, Orchestral Suite No. 3 etc.
Concert
Concentus Musicus Wien
Production Date: 13/07/1984
66 Min
Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his Concentus Musicus Wien are joined by Peter Schreier, Janet Perry and Robert Holl for this delightful filmed performance of Bach's witty Cantata "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" – better known as the Coffee Cantata. As with all of Bach's secular cantatas, it was composed for a specific occasion and most likely first heard in Zimmerman's Coffee House in Leipzig. Gently mocking the contemporary coffee-drinking trend, it is in all but name a mini opera, in which the grumpy Schlendrian berates his daughter, Lieschen, for her caffeine habit and hatches a plot to force her to give it up – but it's Lieschen who has the last laugh. The Concerto for Violin and Oboe and the Orchestral Suite No. 3 complete the programme.
- Soloists:
- Robert Holl (Bass), Janet Perry (Soprano), Peter Schreier (Tenor), Jürg Schaeftlein (Oboe), Alice Harnoncourt (Violin), Herbert Tachezi (Harpsichord), Leopold Stastny (Flute)
- Ensemble:
- Concentus Musicus Wien
- Conductor:
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
