TY - ADVS AU - Bach,Johann Sebastian ED - Yorkshire Television. ED - Films for the Humanities (Firm) TI - Bach, masterpieces to order: the Leipzig church cantatas PY - 1991/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Films for the Humanities KW - Bach, Johann Sebastian, KW - Cantatas, Sacred KW - Leipzig (Germany) KW - Description and travel KW - Views N1 - Title on cassette label and container: Johann Sebastian Bach: masterpieces to order; "FFH 2752"--Labels; Cameramen, Mostaja Hammuri, Steve Falvey, Mark Smeaton ; graphics, Chaz McAlpin ; designer, Andrew Sanderson ; videotape editor, Phil Davies; Narrator: Paul Vaughan N2 - A two-part series on the Leipzig period of J.S. Bach's creative life as composer, the major landmark of which are his cantatas. With the support of documentary evidence and using the city of Leipzig with its ancient Church of St. Thomas as backdrop, the film shows how the Leipzig cantatas were composed, copied into manuscripts and performed in Bach's lifetime. Includes a full performance of the Ascension oratorio, and the start of a reconstructed Lutheran service of Bach's time ER -