Cantatas for solo voice and continuo bass. Volume II.

SKU: HH.HH500-FSP

ISBN 9790708185109.

The eighteenth century saw a great increase in secular music for solo voice and continuo set to texts in Venetian, which was then a recognized literary language, not a mere dialect of Italian. Most of these compositions are short gondola songs or canzonettas, but a few are cantatas in several movements indistinguishable from their counterparts with Italian texts except in language and subject matter, which favours contemporary themes treated in a comic manner. The two Venetian cantatas for soprano and continuo by Diogenio Bigaglia (1678–1745) published here for the first time – they are probably the first of their type ever to appear in a modern edition – are excellently crafted examples of their type, revealing an unexpectedly racy side of their composer, a Benedictine monk. One is a set of instructions for a shopping trip given by a nun to her aged servant, and the other is a woman’s catty description of the rise from rags to riches of one of her neighbours through prostitution. The editions come with translations of the texts and a brief note on the pronunciation of Venetian.

SKU: FZ.5668

ISBN 9790230656689. 23.50 x 31.50 cm inches.

This facsimile of an original by Jean-Baptiste Stuck is part of our French classical music collection. Edition : Paris, C. Ballard, 1708. The introduction is by Bertrand Porot, a speciaslit of Jean-Baptiste Stuck. Preface by Bertrand Porot: the cantatas of Stuck. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches.
Facsimile of a copy in the Municipal Library of Lyon (France).

SKU: FZ.5667

ISBN 9790230656672. 23.50 x 32.50 cm inches.

This facsimile of an original by Jean-Baptiste Stuck is part of our French classical music collection. Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Foucault, 1706. The preface to this first book of remarkable French cantatas includes a catalogue of the works of Stuck and a biography based on partially unpublished archival documents. Preface by Bertrand Porot: biography of J. B. Stuck - catalogue of the works of J. B. Stuck. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches.
Facsimile of a copy in the Municipal Library of Lyon (France). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.

SKU: CA.3119605

ISBN 9790007210434. Language: German/English.

Especially due to the early date of its composition, from the pen of the just turned 22-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach, the cantata The Lord careth for us BWV 196 has its charm, and through its conciseness, as well as its simple scoring, it is quite accessible for performance by ensembles with only modest means. The cantata was composed on the occasion of a wedding in the 1797/08, the details of which cannot be exactly ascertained. The text of the libretto contains no freely written poetry, rather is drawn solely from the Bible (Psalm 115:12-13), there are no recitatives, and the arias are kept very short. The scoring is also of modest propoportions: In addtion to the solo voices soprano, tenor and bass, as well as a four-voice choir, only strings and basso continuo are requried. The cantata begins, as is typical early Bach cantatas, with a short instrumental sinfonia and ends, not with a chorale, but with a choral movement. Score available separately - see item CA.3119600.