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Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended problems.
He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but also for its steadfast style.