Ulrich Leisinger

The 'Little Organ Book', perhaps the most celebrated collection ever of chorale preludes, owes its title to J.S. Bach's application for the post of Cantor at St Thomas' Church in Leipzig. Lacking an a...

Ever since the festivities for his 3rd centenary, it is manifest that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is not only a great name but also a great composer. Over the last decades, scholars paid more and more a...

Ever since the festivities for his 3rd centenary, it is manifest that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is not only a great name but also a great composer. Over the last decades, scholars paid more and more a...

Ever since the festivities for his 3rd centenary, it is manifest that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is not only a great name but also a great composer. Over the last decades, scholars paid more and more a...

Winner 2004 des Wettbewerbs 'Newly Published Music Competition' der 'National Flute Association' (USA) - Erstdruck

1st version in c

Mozart’s magnificent unfinished 'Great Mass in C minor K. 427' is impressive not only for its monumentality and musical beauty but for its fragmentary state which has fascinated scholars and performer...

Mozart's magnificent, unfinished "Missa in c" K. 427 impresses not only because of its monumentality and musical beauty, but also because its incomplete transmission has fascinated scholars and practi...

On March 2, 1714, Johann Sebastian Bach, who had previously worked as a chamber musician and organist at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst in Weimar, was promoted to concertmaster and commissioned to co...

Kantate zum 4. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Soli STB, Coro SATB, Cor, 2 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Kantate zum Michaelistag. Soli STB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Ob, Taille, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Bc

The cantata O Ewigkeit, o Donnerwort BWV 20 for the 1st Sunday after Trinity 1724 marks the beginning of Bach's second Leipzig year, which will go down in history as the choral cantata year and is gen...

The cantata "Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe" was performed together with BWV 23 on Sunday Estomihi 1723 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantorate rehearsal. Both cantatas were later repeated as part...

The cantata Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn was performed together with BWV 22 on Sunday Estomihi 1723 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantorate rehearsal. Both cantatas were later repeated as part...

The 1st Sunday after Trinity marks the beginning of the school year in Leipzig and therefore the start of a new cantata year for the Thomaskantor - completely against contemporary tradition. This also...

Kantate zum 19. Sonntag nach Trinitatis - Solo B, Coro SATB (Schlusschor) / 2 Ob, Taille (Eh), Vc solo, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org - Tonart g-Moll / c-dorisch

The cantata's opening chorus is the first verse of the early church hymn "Veni redemptor gentium", which in Martin Luther's adaptation became the most important Advent hymn of the Protestant church. B...

Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Trinitatis bzw. zum Reformationsfest. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Tr, 2 Ob/2 Obda, Vga, Vl solo, Str, Org - Tonart C-Dur / a-Moll

Survived in two versions: 1st version composed in 1736/37, 2nd version in the first half of the 1740s. Differences only in the instrumentation; both versions have been integrated in this edition. Joha...

The cantata "Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir" is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions. It was composed in Mühlhausen in 1707 and does not yet have the elaborate arias and choral movements o...

The cantata Bring Glory to the Lord in His Name BWV 148 was probably composed for the 17th Sunday after Trinity in 1723; due to the scanty tradition, which only began after Bach's death, the cantata c...

Kantate zu Neujahr; am Fest der Beschneidung Christi. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Ob, Vl solo, Str, Org

The Whitsun cantata Erschallet ihr Lieder was composed for the first Whitsun holiday in 1714 and was performed several times in Leipzig in slightly different versions. Performances in 1724 and 1731 ar...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

Neben der h-Moll-Messe existieren von Bach bekanntlich vier weitere, kleinere Messkompositionen, die sog. Lutherischen oder Kyrie-Gloria-Messen. Trotz ihrer hohen musikalischen Qualitäten, stehen sie...