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January 2025

Sophie Allen [English mezzo-soprano] wrote (January 13, 2025):
I discovered this morning that I have been given the honour of a biographical mention on the Bach Cantatas website! Thank you very much for including my profile.
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Walter Roth wrote (January 18, 2025):
Hello Aryeh, enjoy the day and celebrate your birthday. I admire waht you are doing for JSB ... Wishing you a a great birthday and healthyness ... All the best from the other side of the pond Walter Roth

Nigel Edmund-Jones [Librarian, Canticum Chamber Choir] wrote (January 22, 2025):
<> I thank you for the excellent resource of bach-cantatas.com and look forward to your reply.

Frank Pastore [MD, USA] wrote (January 23, 2025):
Thank you for responding. Your work with this website is nothing short of magnificent. You deserve a standing ovation. Even more, may the Lord bless you for what you have done and are doing.

Yury Makhrov [Russian/German tenor) wrote wrote (January 24, 2025):
[After his bio page on the BCW has been updated] That’s great!
So informative and you do a great deal!
Thank you so much for your work!
I really appreciate it!

February 2025

March 2025

Michiel Carpentier wrote (March 6, 2025):
I have already used your site as background info for my website https://whichbachcantata.be (with credits! https://whichbachcantata.be/credits), so thank you for all your work.
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Miriam Carpinetti [Brazilian composer] wrote (March 17, 2025):
Once again, I congratulate you on your informative website on Bach's Cantatas, which I often consult!
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Thank you for considering my request. I look forward to the possibility of being included on your important site!

April 2025

Felix Yen (April 1, 2025):
<> most importantly: i very much appreciate your efforts. your website is a great resource!

Clare McNamara [American mezzo-soprano] wrote (April 16, 2025):
Thank you for adding my bio and headshots to the Bach Cantatas website. <>

Miriam Carpinetti [Brazilian composer] wrote (April 24, 2025):
I hope this message finds you well. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for including my biography, photos, and links to my compositions on the Bach Cantatas Website. It is an honor to be featured on such a comprehensive resource dedicated to the works of Bach.

Your efforts in curating this invaluable site are truly commendable, and I am thrilled to be a part of it. Thank you once again for your support and for recognizing my contributions.

Melanie Reinhart [UK] wrote (April 27, 2025):
Firstly, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the magnificent website you've created. Such a profound resource for fans of Bach's music, of which I'm one. <>

May 2025

Peter Catalano wrote (May 7, 2025):
This is Peter Catalano, CEO of the Concerto Vocale Foundation in Chattanooga, TN, USA. Let me start by thanking you for the huge contributions you have made to the Bach-Canatas.com website. The site is an invaluable resource for understanding the Bach cantatas; for this we are grateful. <>

Álvaro Tinjacá-Bedoya [Colombian-German counter-tenor and organist) wrote (May 26, 2025):
Thank you so much for including my musical career on Bach-Cantatas.com. I truly appreciate your kind words about my work sharing beautiful music with the public and inspiring people to make music themselves or attend classical music concerts.
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Thank you again for your dedication to documenting the lives and work of musicians.

Quincy Quincy [American tenor] wrote (May 28, 2025):
Thank you for letting me know, and for the work that you do on this website - it is truly a valuable resource.

June 2025

July 2025

William L. Hoffman [Researcher] wrote (July 10, 2025):
You make my work mire worthwhile through your incredible toil and oversight. Thank you for all that you do.

Oliver Kehnen [Berlin, Germany] wrote (July 27, 2025):
Thanks for your work and good luck for your website and yourself!

August 2025

Paul Beard wrote (August 25, 2025):
Introducing myself

I am Paul, 56 and from Bournemouth, U.K.

I first became interested in classical music when I was about eight years old and although I don’t remember how I got hooked, I do remember staying with my Nan in Haslemere, home of the Dolmetsch family and factory, and listening to her records and enjoying that very much. As I went through my teenage years, I also became a fan of rock music but the love of ‘proper’ music never left me. I have listened to classic music radio stations and read their magazines over the years which has helped my understanding and knowledge no end.

Bach has always been at the forefront of my interest and I spend a lot of time listening to his works; I am trying to find as much of his music on CD as I can. In recent months this has become more intense and I have started to amass books about him as well as his contemporaries; in fact early music especially Baroque has become somewhat of a passion, appropriately. I am very lucky to live within a mile of Bournemouth Library and it’s exemplary music section, where much of my research is carried out and part of this concerns a book I want to write about harpsichord makers as this is my favourite instrument. In the library there is also a superb bust of Johann Sebastian and I always say hello to him when I visit.

I learnt to play recorder at school but haven’t played an instrument since. I am just starting to learn the recorder again and hopefully if I can get my music reading skills to a half decent level, I would like to purchase a harpsichord to learn and enjoy.

Top of my list of places to visit is Leipzig and the Bach festival there, with a trip to Eisenach of course too. Maybe next year we might go.

Thanks for reading. Vielen danke fürs lesen.

Martin Beach wrote (October 7, 2025):
[To Paul Beard] thank you paul for discovering the joy of Bach. He was a man of faith, & being bearded myself, would be chuffed to learn that Bach himself might've worn a beard at some time during his life.

As previously intimated, his trust in God was his driving force & this attitude is in stark contrast with many contemporary (& past/dead) musicians who become obsessed with a quest for greatness.

Bach was always content to pass all credit to his creator... 'soli Deo gloria" .... Having thrived musically in spite of losing his 1st wife & 13 of his 20 kids to some grim reaper before 1750 when he finally shuffled off this mortal coil.... he had attained three score & five, a ripe old age in his day, and as you have suggested left us a great treasure of great listening.

His church music is undoubted>ly best appreciated in a liturgical context, Lutheran Roman Catholic or Anglican (episcopalian in USA). These strands of Christendom follow a historical liturgical form & accordingly are more likely to treat the Eucharist as a situation where a believer may eat & drink the body & blood of Chrtist in with & under the bread & wine.... these strands of Christendom didn't get sucked in by Erasmus & his anthropocentric rather than theocentric ways..

I plan to resume my BBS (bloody bullshit session/Bach Bible studies from the 1st thursday in Advent 2025, until i'm in need of another sabbatical. wherever possible we'll contemplate cantatas from his 3rd cycle... please note Bach died @ 65, my dad, a definite bach afficionado who woud habitually brainwash me with his bach Cantata records in his schweinerei of a study died @ 66.3 recurring & i'm already pushing 68... so on balance probability i'm already on borrowed time.... if not now, then after i pass mum's age of 74 4/5 definitely i'll be awaiting my bloved grim reaper......

Big plans need small steps.... and faith...

September 2025

John Beattie [New York] wrote (September 1, 2025):
This is to express profoundest gratitude for your work in organizing discussions and resources on your website https://www.bach-cantatas.com/ about Johann Sebastian Bach, the greatest composer in Western tradition who has ever lived...or perhaps we should even generalize and say: the greatest musician who has ever lived.
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December 2025

Elias Lien [American baritone] wrote (December 2, 2025):
I just came across an entry in your wonderful Bach Cantatas Website of a brief biography on me!
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Thank you for the amazing site you offer to the world. An incredible resource.

Leon Tchakachow [Grman baritone] wrote (December 5, 2025):
I was a bit flattered when I found out by chance that there is a profile of me on your Bach Cantata Website and that it’s providing a lot of information about me.
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Jos van Veldhoven [Dutch conductor] wrote (December 5, 2025):
My name is Jos van Veldhoven and I am a conductor. Thank you for your great Bach website.
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