Three Notch’d Road Baroque: “Jesu, Joy,” Bach Cantatas 131 & 147

Organist and Bach expert Todd Fickley guest directs the opening concert of Three Notch’d Road’s 15th season. The program features two cantatas, the organ solo Fantasia in G, BWV 572, and the cheerful instrumental Sinfonia from BWV 29.Cantata 147 is a mature masterwork from Bach’s late Leipzig period and includes the beloved “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” melody and festive virtuoso writing for trumpet. Cantata 131 is a setting of Psalm 130, full of pathos, and possibly the earliest cantata we have of Bach. (Pictured: Steven Marquardt, baroque trumpet)