SKU: CA.3109909

ISBN 9790007047115. Key: G major. Language: German/English. Text: Rodigast, Samuel. Text: Samuel Rodigast.

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SKU: CA.3118305

ISBN 9790007050375. Key: A minor. Language: German/English. Text: von Ziegler, Christiane Mariane. Text: Christiane Mariane von Ziegler.

The cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun [They will banish you] BWV 183 for Exaudi Sunday is one of the cantatas composed on texts by the Leipzig poetess Christiane Mariane von Ziegler with which Bach concluded his second annual cycle of cantatas after he had abandoned the annual cycle of chorale cantatas at Easter 1725. The cantata opens with Jesus's words from the Sunday gospel reading in an accompagnato recitative for bass - representing the vox Christi - accompanied by four oboes which, together with the strings, are also deployed in the cantata's second accompagnato recitative. The first of the virtuoso arias is accompanied by violoncello piccolo, the second by two oboes da caccia together with the string ensemble. The cantata concludes with an unusually animated final chorale. Score available separately - see item CA.3118300.

SKU: CA.3121121

ISBN M-007-25178-9. German/English.

In 1729 Bach took over the running of the Collegium musicum in Leipzig, founded by Telemann, and continued the tradition of giving concerts at least once a week with this ensemble in Zimmermann's coffee house or, in the summer, in the coffee garden there. The compositions which were probably composed for performance there include Bach's famous Coffee Cantata. The cantata is only superficially about daughter Liesgen's addiction to coffee, in fact it is really about her strict father Schlend rian's educational efforts, which ultimately remain ineffective - but only in Bach's cantata. In Picander's printed libretto it seems as if Schlendrian might prevail, and only in Bach's cantata, which includes two movements setting additional text, is there a twist to the contrary. Might Bach's experiences as a father have come into play here?

SKU: CA.9705080

ISBN 9790007131852. Language: German. Text: Eber, Paul. Text: Paul Eber.

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SKU: CA.3112714

ISBN 9790007048891. Key: F major. Language: German/English. Text: Eber, Paul. Text: Paul Eber.

Cantata BWV 127 belongs to the cycle of chorale cantatas which Bach performed in 1724/25 in Leipzig. It bears close links to the St John Passion, which was performed on Good Friday 1725 in its second version. In formal terms and in the interpretation of the text and its orchestration, it is one of the most astonishing vocal works by Bach. The opening chorus, with its multi-layered construction, is nothing less than a preliminary version for the chorale fantasia O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross. The aria Die Seele ruht in Jesu Handen is distinguished by its exquisite scoring: a solo oboe and the soprano form a duet, whilst the background comprises delicate chords on recorders and continuo, intended to symbolize funeral bells. A solo trumpet gives the following movement particular brilliance. The words Ich breche mit starker und helfender Hand unmistakably anticipate the chorus Sind Blitze, sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden from the St Matthew Passion. New revised edition. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3112700.

SKU: CA.3110113

ISBN 9790007047337. Key: D minor. Language: German/English. Text: Moller, Martin. Text: Martin Moller.

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SKU: CA.3104305

ISBN 9790007103040. Key: C major / g major. Language: German/English.

On the 30th May 1726, as part of his third Leipzig annual cycle of cantatas, Bach directed the first performance of his Ascension Cantata Gott fahret auf mit Jauchzen. The libretto was published at Rudolstadt during the same year without any indication of the autor's name, in a collection entitled Sonn- und Fest-Tags-Andachten uber die ordenlichen Evangelia. The libretti in that collection had already been used during the Church year 1704/05 at the Court of Meiningen; their author may have been Duke Ernst Ludwig von Sachsen-Meiningen. Score available separately - see item CA.3104300.

SKU: CA.3101613

ISBN 9790007204792. Language: German/English. Text: Luther, Martin.

This cantata was first performed in Leipzig on New Year's Day 1726. It belongs to a small group of compositions which were composed between Advent 1725 and mid-January 1726 and whose text were written by the same author. There is no reference to the New Year in connection with the circumcision and naming of Jesus in this afternoon worship service. Rather the thoughts in this work are concerned with the praise of God and thanks for his good deeds. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3101600.

SKU: CA.3123811

ISBN 9790007051051. Key: D major. Language: Latin.

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SKU: CA.4040100

ISBN 9790007132583.

Ulrich Schicha's six Christmas lieder were arranged for the Dresdner Kreuzchor. During the years 1971 to 1991 Schicha was the choral assistant to the Dresdner Kreuzkantor, Martin Flamig.

SKU: CA.336010

ISBN 9790007243463. Key: A minor. Language: German. Text: Zuccalmaglio, Anton Wilhelm.

SKU: CA.3114819

ISBN 9790007136802. Language: German/English.

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SKU: CA.4018614

ISBN 9790007064402. Language: German/English. Text: Gerhardt, Paul. Text: Paul Gerhardt.

During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach's works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas based on well-known chorale melodies for choir, instruments, and sometimes also for soloists. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4018600.

SKU: CA.3104613

ISBN 9790007042998. Key: D minor. Language: German/English.

The opening chorus of the cantata Schauet doch und sehet (Look ye then and see now) is one of those movements by Bach which are much better known in their later guise: the first part of it became the Qui tollis of the Mass in B minor. But this movement is not the only high point of the cantata from Bach's earliest Leipzig period. Both the arias are also unusual: a bass aria depicting God's anger dramatically as a thundering storm, with strings and slide trumpet, which gives the movement a very special colour through its unexpected notes beyond the instrument's natural series, and an alto aria with two recorders, accompanied by just two oboi da caccia in unison, which take the role of the continuo as little basset instruments. Music almost not of this world! New revised edition. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3104600.

SKU: CA.3110424

Key: G major / a major. Language: German/English.

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