For their first recording exploring the world of Bach, Sébastien Daucé, and Ensemble Correspondances give new life to the young composer’s first sacred cantatas: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4; Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus), BWV 106; and Aus der TIefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131. These three works were written in Mühlhausen, where he served as organist at St. Blasius Churchm marking a pivotal, albeit brief, period of personal and musical growth before moving to Weimar. Combining the Lutheran tradition with a faint breeze from Italy, these works already reveal the dramatic invention and formal rigor of a fully functioning creative mind. Soprano Caroline Weynants, contralto Lucile Richardot, tenor Raphael Höhn, and bass Sebastian Myrus comprise the quartet of soloists.