SKU: CA.3107411
ISBN 9790007044756. Key: C major / a minor. Language: German/English. Text: von Ziegler, Christiane Mariane. Text: Christiane Mariane von Ziegler.
After the second setting by Bach. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3107400.
SKU: CA.3108805
ISBN 9790007046095. Key: D major / b minor. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3108800.
SKU: CA.3110949
ISBN 9790007241452. Key: D minor / a minor. Language: German/English.
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SKU: CA.3111119
ISBN 9790007136611. Key: A minor. Language: German/English. Text: von Preussen, Albrecht. Text: Albrecht von Preussen.
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SKU: CA.3110905
ISBN 9790007048013. Key: D minor / a minor. Language: German/English.
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SKU: CA.4007514
ISBN 9790007060961. Language: German/English.
The Psalms inspired Mendelssohn throughout his working life, and, aside from a cappella settings, he left behind five great orchestral Psalms. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4007500.
SKU: CA.3123513
ISBN 9790007085940. Key: G minor. Language: Latin.
As well as the Mass in B minor, there are four further, shorter mass compositions by Bach, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie-Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overshadowed by other church works by Bach. With their six-movement structure (up to the Cum sancto spiritu) they had their specific liturgical position in church services of the time of Bach. The masses largely comprise parodies, with the original music mainly taken from cantatas which Bach sometimes considerably reworked in his well-known style according to the new context of the work. Ulrich Leisinger has edited the four works for Carus in new critical editions. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123500.
SKU: CA.3109911
ISBN 9790007047122. Key: G major. Language: German/English. Text: Rodigast, Samuel. Text: Samuel Rodigast.
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SKU: CA.4012556
ISBN 9790007162146. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.4012500.
SKU: CA.4048214
ISBN 9790007070106. Key: D minor. Language: Latin.
Abraham Mendelssohn brought his son to Paris in 1825, so that Cherubini could come to a conclusion about the abilities of the young composer. Mendelssohn presented this great Kyrie to Cherubini as an example. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4048200.
SKU: CA.3100209
ISBN 9790007041335. Key: D minor. Language: German/English. Text: Luther, Martin. Text: Martin Luther.
Bach composed the cantata O God, from heaven look on us BWV 2 for the 2nd Trinity Sunday 1724 as the second cantata of the annual cycle of chorale cantatas. It is based on Martin Luther's rewriting of Psalm 112. The opening movement is one of a group of cantata opening movements which are not concertante but kept entirely in the motet style, with the instruments serving only to reinforce the singers. The archaic character of this movement is heightened by the addition of a trombone quartet. The concertante style is all the more significant in the first aria for contralto, solo violin and continuo. The first secco recitative represents a special feature: two fragments of the chorale are woven as arioso into the recitative, both in text and melody; futhermore, they are also taken up canonically by the continuo. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3100200.
SKU: CA.3106619
ISBN 9790007134075. Key: D major / f sharp major. Language: German/English.
The composition of this parody was begun in 1718 and completed with the final version in 1731. The original work (the basis of the parody) was Der Himmel lacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Gluck, which was a cantata for the birthday of Count Leopold von Anhalt-Kothen (1718, BWV 66a), with a text by Christian Friedrich Hunold, alias Menantes. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3106600.
SKU: CA.4042310
ISBN 9790007067335. Key: D major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.3110913
ISBN 9790007048068. Key: D minor / a minor. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4072000
ISBN 9790007128302. Key: C major. Language: German.
SKU: CA.4007509
ISBN 9790007060923. Language: German/English.
The Psalms inspired Mendelssohn throughout his working life, and, aside from a cappella settings, he left behind five great orchestral Psalms. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4007500.
SKU: CA.3123605
ISBN 9790007086015. Key: G major. Language: Latin.
Score available separately - see item CA.3123600.
SKU: CA.4013370
ISBN 9790007127602. Key: D major. Language: German.
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SKU: CA.3110707
ISBN 9790007047849. Key: B minor. Language: German/English. Text: Heermann, Johann. Text: Johann Heermann.
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SKU: CA.307110
ISBN 9790007149291. Key: D major. Language: German. Text: Nicolai, Philipp. Text: Philipp Nicolai.
Alternative text to Zwingt die Saiten in Cythara from the cantata.
SKU: CA.4048211
ISBN 9790007070076. Key: D minor. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.4018607
ISBN 9790007092573. 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 available separately - see item CA.4018600.
SKU: CA.3117849
ISBN 9790007240592. Key: A minor. Language: German/English. Text: Jonas, Justus.
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SKU: CA.3111313
ISBN 9790007048426. Key: B minor. Language: German/English. Text: Ringwaldt, Bartholomaus. Text: Bartholomaus Ringwaldt.
Score available separately - see item CA.3111300.
SKU: CA.3123011
ISBN 9790007210946. Key: C major. Language: German/English.
This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123000.
SKU: CA.3117919
ISBN 9790007136918. Key: G major / a minor. Language: German/English.
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SKU: CA.3118512
ISBN 9790007050610. Key: F sharp minor. Language: German/English. Text: Franck, Salomo. Text: Salomo Franck.
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SKU: CA.3109807
ISBN 9790007047016. Key: B flat major. Language: German/English.
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SKU: CA.3118549
ISBN 9790007239930. Key: F sharp minor. Language: German/English. Text: Franck, Salomo.
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SKU: CA.4012905
ISBN 9790007186524. Text language: German/English.
Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn's lifetime St. Paul was one of his most popular works, which received numerous performances throughout Europe. Robert Schuman praised the inextinguishable color of the instrumentation and the brilliant play with all the forms of composition. He described it as a jewel of the present.. Score available separately - see item CA.4012900.
