In Bach’s day, drinking coffee was certainly not without controversy. The text in this Kaffeekantate 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht', here performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, tells of a girl who is addicted and of women who know their own mind, and sexual innuendo is never far away. If Bach had written an opera, then it could have looked like this.

Recorded for the project All of Bach on 17th May 2019 at Radio Kootwijk. This recording was made possible by the support of the Eleven Floawers Foundation. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating http://bit.ly/2uZuMj5.

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Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato, violin and direction
Lucie Chartin, sopran
JanWillem Schaafsma, tenor
Mattijs van de Woerd, bass
Marc Pantus, theatre concept, direction and design

0:00 Distrait (Telemann)
1:44 Schweigt stille (Rezitativ)
2:26 Hat man nicht (Arie)
5:09 Du böses Kind (Rezitativ)
5:53 Ei! wie schmeckt (Arie)
10:33 Wenn du mir nicht (Rezitativ)
11:51 Mädchen, die von harten (Arie)
14:33 Nun folge (Rezitativ)
15:31 Heute noch (Arie)
22:18 Nun geht (Rezitativ)
23:09 Die Katze läβt (Terzett)