Uwe Wolf

gemischter Chor (SSATB), Orchester

gemischter Chor (SSATB), Orchester

The edition of the Mass in B minor as part of the New Bach Edition was and is the standard for generations of musicians. The first volume of the revised new edition now presented by Uwe Wolf offers mu...

'Machet die Tore weit' is perhaps Andreas Hammerschmidt's best-known composition. But it is mainly performed in a form which does not originate from the composer - considerably shortened, with altered...

Monteverdi's "Vespers of Mary" has found its way into today's musical practice like hardly any other work of the 17th century. However, the "Vespers of Mary" also presents us with many puzzles. The so...

Anyone who has Bruckner's symphonies and well-known great masses in their ears will be amazed when they hear his "Missa solemnis" from 1854: can the tradition of Viennese Classicism still be so clearl...

The cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity (August 1723) is from Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle. The opening chorus, which is unique in Bach's cantata oeuvre, is particularly noteworthy: Bach h...

The Leipzig council election cantata "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir" from 1731 is one of Bach's cantatas in which the organ is given an obbligato role. In the introductory Sinfonia (an arrangem...

Celebrate the New Year with the festive splendor of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset" BWV 41. This masterful work combines jubilant praise with heartfelt prayers for blessings...

Created in the later creative period around 1740

Alongside the more well-known cantata "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" BWV 80, "Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild" BWV 79 is Bach's only other cantata for the Reformation festival. However, its centr...

Bach's first Leipzig council election cantata, composed in August 1723, is also his most magnificently scored cantata of the Leipzig period. The choice of a festive orchestral instrumentation fits the...

Like all cantatas for St. Michael's Day, the choral cantata "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" BWV 130 from 1724 is an exceptionally magnificent composition. The three trumpets and timpani are not only...

The cantata is one of the few cantatas by Bach with an original date. Salomon Franck's composition is closely linked to the Gospel reading from John 1:19-28, which deals with the testimony of John the...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) in 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually in...

The cantata was probably first performed on September 27, 1716, the 16th Sunday after Trinity Sunday, in Weimar's Schlosskirche. The text comes from the cantata volume "Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer"...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach's masterful cantata for Trinity Sunday: "Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding" BWV 176. This expressive work captivates with its gripping opening chorus and profound re...

Antonio Vivaldi set Psalm 111 (112) "Beatus vir" three times ("Blessed is the man who fears the Lord"). Of these, two have survived that could hardly be more different: the extensive, double-choir wor...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, among other things in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this Vespers Psalm has some peculiarities: the...

The Tantum ergo in A major, WAB 43, is one of Bruckner’s student pieces, preceding the later Tantum ergo settings, WAB 41/1–4. The parallel sixths and the ending evoke memories of late Viennese Classi...

> Festive cantata based on the Urtext of the New Bach Edition > With a duration of 20-25 minutesWith his cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren which Bach composed for the Visitation of Mary (2 July),...

Johann Sebastian Bach's choral cantata "Meine Seel erhebt den Herren" BWV 10 was composed for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (July 2) in 1724. Thematically, it is based on Mary's song of praise (...

Ultimately, he is a pupil for whom I need not feel embarrassed,' wrote J. S. Bach, summarizing the qualities of his son-in-law to be, J. C. Altnickol. Altnickol's two settings of the Sanctus, based on...

Experience a magnificent masterpiece of the early Italian Baroque: Claudio Monteverdi's "Dixit Dominus Primo" SV 263 from the celebrated collection Selva morale et spirituale captivates with its power...

The impressive collection Selva morale et spirituale, first published in 1641, is a milestone in Monteverdi's oeuvre and reflects his almost 30 years of activity as a church musician in Venice. As in...