SDG is delighted to present Volume 12 - Cantatas for the twenty-second and twenty-third Sundays after trinity. The highlight of this album is Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers, wake) one of Bach's best known cantatas and one that has long been part of the Monteverdi Choir's repertoire. It is described as 'a cantata without weaknesses, without a dull bar, technically, emotionally and spiritually of the highest order'. Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht (I, wretched man, I slave to sin) is Bach's only cantata for solo tenor still in existence. It is sung movingly by James Gilchrist.