Enjoy the virtuosity of instrumental music and the perfection of vocal performers in the music genre of cantata. It is a vocal piece for one or more voices. It usually contains lyrical elements and a certain abstract nature is a characteristic of cantatas in solo numbers. Download your favorite cantata or sonata and listen to the stunning harmonious combination of orchestral introduction, arias, recitatives and choruses.
Classic cantatas
In the list of the composers who have contributed to the development of the cantata genre Prokofiev is considered to be the most famous. His greatest creation is the cantata "Alexander Nevsky" which you can download it in this section. It is characterized by unprecedented vividness and "visibility" of images. Based on the film with the same name by Eisenstenin and on Lugovskiy’s lyrics, it conveys the spirit of the epic story, stateliness and severity of the Russian soldiers of the time. The cantata "Alexander Nevsky" is available in mp3 on our website. "Coffee Cantata" by Bach is also a well-known piece. It was composed for a coffee house, and its story describes a conflict of a father and a daughter in their attitude towards coffee. Beside this cantata, Bach also wrote sheet music for the following works: Cantata 2, Cantata 140, Cantata 147 and Cantata 156, and many other works, which can also be downloaded in mp3 format from this section.
