SKU: CA.3119307
ISBN 9790007050764. Key: D major / g major. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3119300.
SKU: CA.3109909
ISBN 9790007047115. Key: G major. Language: German/English. Text: Rodigast, Samuel. Text: Samuel Rodigast.
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SKU: CA.3105000
ISBN 9790007043025. Key: D major. Language: German/English.
Composed in the late period, around 1740 A lively discussion about the choral movement Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft has been carried on, in which not only all previous assumptions have been called into question - including Bach's authorship - but also show how little we know about the history of this magnificent movement. Even though there is little to refute the 1982 presumption that the work was handed down in the form of an arrangement, the question remains open concerning the identity of the arranger, as well as the alleged form of the original design. Therefore it seemed appropriate to forego any attempts at reconstruct-ion. Rather, for the present new edition the music has been critically examined and commented upon based on the surviving copy from Bach's circle.
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.3101005
ISBN 9790007129910. Language: German/English.
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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.336010
ISBN 9790007243463. Key: A minor. Language: German. Text: Zuccalmaglio, Anton Wilhelm.
SKU: CA.336880
ISBN 9790007246273. Language: English/German.
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.3118114
ISBN 9790007050221. Key: E minor / b minor. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3118100.
SKU: CA.9705080
ISBN 9790007131852. Language: German. Text: Eber, Paul. Text: Paul Eber.
Score available separately - see item CA.9705000.
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.3103411
ISBN 9790007042608. Key: D major. Language: German/English.
The marriage cantata (BWV 34a) on which this work is based was composed in 1726. This parody was composed in the first half of the 1740's. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3103400.
SKU: CA.3105212
ISBN 9790007206321. Language: German/English. Text: Birkmann, Christoph.
It only became apparent a few years ago that the text of the soprano cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht came from the collection Gott-geheiligten Sabbaths-Zehnden by the Leipzig theology student and Bach pupil Christoph Birkmann, printed in 1728 in Nuremberg. Birkmann was probably therefore the author of the text. The cantata was written for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on 24 November 1726 in the year of its first performance. As in other cantatas in the first annual cycle, Bach chose an instrumental sinfonia as the opening movement - here the first movement of the 1st Brandenburg Concerto. The soprano soloist has two recitatives and two arias, in which the falsehood of the world is juxtaposed with trust in God. The cantata text is rounded off with the first verse of the chorale In dich hab ich gehoffet, scored for four-part chorus, as is usual with Bach. With the use of two horns and three oboes added to the string ensemble, the cantata has colorful and varied orchestration. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3105200.
SKU: CA.3110113
ISBN 9790007047337. Key: D minor. Language: German/English. Text: Moller, Martin. Text: Martin Moller.
Score available separately - see item CA.3110100.
SKU: CA.3109307
ISBN 9790007046552. Key: C minor. Language: German/English. Text: Neumark, Johann Georg.
C-Moll (C minor). Score available separately - see item CA.3109300.
SKU: CA.3104412
ISBN 9790007205973. Language: German/English.
The cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, part of Bach's first Leipzig annual cycle of cantatas and the earlier of two compositions of the same name, was probably first performed on the last Sunday after Ascension in May 1724. The text is concerned with suffering and the Antichrist, both of which are overcome by Christian faith. By employing all four ranges in solo capacities Bach creates the greatest possible variety. It opens, unusually, with a duet for tenor and bass, accompanied by two oboes and basso continuo. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3104400.
SKU: CA.4013092
Language: German.
Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament. Mendelssohn to his librettist. Score available separately - see item CA.4013000.
SKU: CA.3104414
ISBN 9790007205997. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.3108113
ISBN 9790007045487. Key: E minor. Language: German/English.
Bach composed the cantata Jesus schlaft, was soll ich hoffen [Jesus sleeps, what hope have I] BWV 81 for the fourth Epiphany Sunday, 1724. The cantata is structured as a little drama: In the beginning, fear prevails. The seas rage and Jesus is asleep. The threateningly foaming waves are vividly depicted in the soughing string accompaniment of the tenor aria. Jesus's words Ihr Kleinglaubigen, warum seid ihr so furchtsam? [You of little faith, why are you so fearful?] are set as a bass arioso at the center of the cantata; they provide the turning point. In the subsequent bass aria, the towering seas are silenced. A recitative - Wohl mir [Well for me] - leads into the closing chorale with its certainty Unter deinen Schirmen bin ich vor den Sturmen aller Feinde frei [Under Your protection I am spared the tempests of my enemies]. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3108100.
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.3114819
ISBN 9790007136802. Language: German/English.
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SKU: CA.3110114
ISBN 9790007047344. Key: D minor. Language: German/English. Text: Moller, Martin. Text: Martin Moller.
SKU: CA.3111419
ISBN 9790007136635. Key: G minor. Language: German/English. Text: Gigas, Johannes. Text: Johannes Gigas.
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SKU: CA.328440
ISBN 9790007169183. Key: F major. Language: German. Text: Rodigast, Samuel. Text by Samuel Rodigast.
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.3122915
ISBN 9790007210892. Key: G minor. Language: German/English. Text: Thymich, Paul. Text: Paul Thymich.
Year of composition unknown, presumably in the period 1723-1732 Der saure Weg - the bitter path - is how this motet is popularly known, taking its nickname from the fugue theme, with its awkward intervals which are a challenge to sing cleanly. But Bach's choral music contains a whole range of other challenges, too. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3122900.
SKU: CA.3110424
Key: G major / a major. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3110400.
SKU: CA.3101419
ISBN 9790007135966. Language: German/English. Text: Luther, Martin. Text: Martin Luther.
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SKU: CA.3101109
ISBN 9790007042028. Key: D major. Language: German.
Besides the Weihnachtsoratorium BVW 248, Bach composed an additional work for the feast days of the church year 1734/35: The Himmelfahrtsoratorium BWV 11 (Ascension Oratorio). Although in its dimensions and character the oratorio is akin to his cantatas, it occupies a special position as a result of the epic text on which it is based; the text includes a biblical story. In particular, the festive atmosphere and instrumentation of the opening and closing choruses mirror the triumphant joy of Christ's ascension. This is a new edition in the Stuttgart Bach Editions series, edited by Ulrich Leisinger. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3101100.
