Festive Strings for Ensemble

Arranged for Choir and Organ-Festive Choral Settings From Cantatas Arranged For Choir & Organ is ideal for church services and concerts and has easy-to-play Organ reductions.The six choral settings of this edition come from cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach offering richly sounding ensemble forces for festive occasions of the ecclesiastical year (New Year Easter Ascension Day Whitsuntide Trinity Sunday). These arrangements for Choir and Organ by the church musician and organist of the Stiftskirche Tübingen Ingo Bredenbach will allow choirs unable to call on large orchestral forces with wind instruments and strings to perform these choral settings.Concertante cantata movements giving prominence to the choir have been selected; at the same time their texts do not restrict them to the particular religious holiday they were meant for in the Church year. These arrangements follow the score of the ?New Bach Edition?. They are playable on every two-manual instrument with pedal. The arrangements available here however require no imitation of the orchestral sound but stand as independent versions.

Snow Is Falling. Based on the charming Japanese folk song ?Yuki.? Robert has combined this song with an original festive melody to create a tuneful, winter holiday piece. Everyone gets a chance to shine in this beginning piece for strings, suitable for that first holiday concert!

Cantata for the First Sunday of Advent-The cantata Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland (TVWV 1:1174) is taken from Telemann’s cantata cycle of 1717 18. Though festively scored for two Oboes two Trumpets Kettledrums Strings and Basso Continuo it will not overly strain the financial resources of today’s ensembles.The well-known chorale tune features prominantly in all choruses. Telemann gives one aria each to the three soloists (SAB). Thanks to the relatively small instrumental ensemble the choral passages can be taken one to a part. The vocal score appears with a singing translation in English.- Urtext based on the latest scholarly research.- Straightforwardand easy-to-play Keyboard reduction.- Duration: approx. 15 minutes.- Singing translation in English- Vocal score (BA7677-90) and performance material (BA7677) available for sale.