Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Inventions for Two Trumpets: Trumpet Duet

In response to numerous requests from customers we are now publishing a single-volume Wiener Urtext Edition of the established two-volume edition of Johann Sebastian Bach?s Six Partitas (Klavierübung Part I) edited by Klaus Engler and Edith Picht-Axenfeld. In this context we have revised our edition of this masterpiece of Bach?s art of the Suite putting even more of the page turns in convenient places and adding a preface in French.

“A mendicant woman from the Haynstrasse aged 59 years Anna Magdalena née Wilckin widow of Mr. Johann Sebastian Bach cantor at the St. Thomas School” – thus reads the entry dated 29 February 1760 in the Leipzig 'Ratsleichenbuch” (City Register of Deaths) for a woman whose name has become known throughout the world thanks to the two music books put together for her by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach himself opened the book with two of the large Partitas subsequently published in the first part of the 'Clavierübung”; the rest of the contents was determined by Anna Magdalena. On the whole these areshort pieces of “galanterie”: minuets polonaises marches compositions by the elder children and attempts by the younger ones little pieces which she copied out of the family guest book and which had been written there more or less as tokens of friendship by the many visitors in the Bach home. - Urtext of the New Bach Edition - Edition with fingering also available BA5242 - Bibliophile performing edition hardback BA5115

Third Part of the Clavier Ubung-In 1739 Bach?s Third Part of the Clavier Übung was published on 80 pages closely printed. Ever since then the collection has been regarded as a high point in the history of Organ composition as it offers an impressive cross section of Bach?s artistry.This present volume is an updated edition of Volume 4 Series IV of the New Bach Edition presented by Manfred Tessmer in 1969. A fully revised edition proved unnecessary as there were relatively few corrections affecting the musical text. However the volume now includes a detailed Preface by Christoph Wolff which discusses not only the work?s genesis but also offers an up-to-datedescription of the sources. For the new engraving of the musical text page-turns were reviewed and improved.Bach?s autograph is considered lost and so the main source is the original print of the collection from 1739. In collaboration with the Leipzig Bach Archive and its database Bach Digital this new edition includes links to two important copies of the original print which contain hand-written entries by Bach himself.Any complete scholarly-critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must in the interest of its use by researchers and performers incorporate intervening new discoveries wherever possible. With this in mind Bärenreiter has entered an agreement with the Leipzig Bach Archive to reissue particular volumes as applicable either in updated performing editions based on the New Bach Edition or in thoroughly revised editions based on the New Bach Edition - revised. In this way each new performing edition will represent the cutting edge of research.Further hallmarks of this new generation of Urtext editions will be detailed up-to-date Prefaces and newly engraved musical texts with optimum page turns. Each volume will list incipits with links to the relevant manuscripts in Bach Digital thereby enabling the user to gain quick access to the sources.- With altered readings integrated into the musical text taking into account new musicological evidence.- With a new Preface by Christoph Wolff (Ger/Eng) discussing this work and its sources.- Newly engraved and with improved page

Arias with 1 or 2 flutes obbligato (with the complete vocal part)-Arias with 1 or 2 Flutes obbligato (with the complete vocal part).Selected movements from secular cantatas from St Matthew Passion Mass in B minor and the Lutheran Mass in A major. This volume presents for the first time all those arias from the oratorios Passions Masses and sacred and secular cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach that contain obbligato parts for one or two Flutes. The musical text has been adopted from the “ Urtext ” of the New Bach Edition. Music and words are inseparable in Bach’s works. Therefore as an aid to the interpretation of these Flute solos our richly annotated collection offers notonly Flute part but also the complete vocal part for each movement. In this way the edition not only represents a novel form of Orchestral studies it also opens up an important area of the Flute repertoire. Contents:Kantate 45. Es ist dir gesagt Mensch was gut ist. Nr. 5 Alt-Arie: Wer Gott bekenntKantate 55. Ich armer Mensch ich Sündenknecht. Nr. 3 Tenor-Arie: Erbarme dichKantate 79. Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild. Nr. 2 Alt-Arie: Gott ist unsre Sonn und SchildKantate 180. Schmücke dich o liebe Seel. Nr. 2 Tenor-Arie: Ermuntre dich dein Heiland kommtKantate 94. Was frag ich nach der Welt. Nr. 4 Alt-Arie: Betörte Welt betörte WeltKantate 110. Unser Mund sei voll Lachens. Nr. 2 Tenor-Arie: Ihr Gedanken und ihr Sinnen (2 Flöten)Kantate 78. Jesu der du meine Seel. Nr. 4 Tenor-Arie: Das Blut so meine Schuld durchstreichtKantate 100. Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan. Nr. 3 Sopran-Arie (Vers): Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetanKantate 96. Herr Christ der einge Gottessohn. Nr. 3 Tenor-Arie: Ach ziehe die Seele mit Seilen der LiebeKantate 102. Herr deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben. Nr. 5 Tenor-Arie: Erschrecke doch du allzu sichre SeeleKantate 113. Herr Jesu Christ du höchstes Gut. Nr. 5 Tenor-Arie: Jesus nimmt die Sünder anKantate 99. Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan. Nr. 3 Tenor-Arie: Erschüttre dich nur nicht verzagte SeeleKantate 114. Ach lieben Christen seid getrost. Nr. 2 Tenor-Arie: Wo wird in diesem JammertaleKantate 130. Herr Gott

In response to a continued interest in a scholarly facsimile of the Mass in B minor, a new cloth-bound facsimile edition (BVK 2194) has now been published. This replaces the original BÄRENREITER FACSIMILE edition (BVK 1911).

Johann Sebastian Bach completed the Mass in B minor in 1748/49 shortly after the Art of Fugue and shortly before his death. This late work is as concentrated and rich in compositional technique as scarcely any other work. As early as 1818, Hans-Georg Nägeli enthusiastically described the Mass as the greatest musical artwork of all time and all nations?. Since then it has been ranked as an icon of music history.

One of the primary functions of a facsimile is the preservation of such a cultural heritage, particularly when the manuscript (as is the case with the Mass in B minor) is endangered and damaged by iron gall ink erosion. Furthermore, it is moving for Bach admirers to see how in some passages Bach?s handwriting reflects the effort which this last work demanded of him.

The facsimile documents and records the present condition of the complete autograph score. Older reproductions have substituted a few individual folios where the content has become difficult to read in recent years.
The renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff describes the work?s significance in his introduction, gives an overview of the history of composition and draws attention to particular distinguishing features of the manuscript.


This facsimile edition is a model for the presentation of musical sources, both in appearance and in documentation. [?] Wolff's facsimile will serve as foundational tools
(Notes, December 2008)

Once, Bach came up against the boundaries of his art, on blotchy, 260-year-old paper. ?Et expecto?? is this point in the B minor mass, ?And I look for the resurrection of the dead.? Bach wrote modulations which were extraordinary. He had to strive for these. He crossed out ? although this is a fair copy ? hatched and scratched until the paper tore. He was already an old man, his script leans to the left. The handwriting here isn?t nearly as lively as in the ?Cum sancto Spirito?, written earlier. Everywhere, one is moved by the closeness to the manuscript which the facsimile conveys ? one of the most sumptuous ever published.
(DIE ZEIT Literatur, December 2007) / [Messe en Si mineur BWV 232] / Classique / Fac-similé /

Learn from the master. Johann Sebastian Bach composed countless pieces specifically for his many students. My First Bach contains many of these educational pieces which are, for the most part, arranged in increasing difficulty. Easy two-part chorales and dances are followed by more demanding little preludes, two-part inventions and the first Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier. / Piano