Welcome to a unique website devoted to Bach's Cantatas.
You are never more than a couple of clicks away from an original essay on each of the church and 'secular' cantatas. There are also over 1000 music examples which can be heard by clicking on the icon at the top left of each one. Julian Mincham.
e.g.extracts from BWV 207 and 38. 
Volume One - Experimentation
The first Leipzig cycle and the early and secular cantatas.A period of innovation of new works allied with the reuse of many that Bach had composed prior to 1723.
The second Leipzig cycle and the later chorale cantatas.
Cycles three and four and the late works. Contextual considerations and expansions of the genre.