Cantata Sheet Music Downloads

The cantata 'Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte' (I love the Almighty with all of my spirit) BWV 174 was composed for Whit Monday 1729. It probably belongs to Bach's fourth cycle of cantatas, kn...

The cantata "Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte" BWV 174 was composed for Whit Monday in 1729. It probably belongs to Bach's fourth cantata cycle, the so-called "Picander cycle". The introductor...

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afiel...

The Wedding Cantata BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 onwards at various wedding celebrations in varying forms and was apparently also lent out for performances abroad. The only surviving...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

Alexander Nevsky was composed by Sergei Prokofiev as a film score for the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky. He later rearranged the music in the form of a cantata for mezzo-soprano, chorus...

The cantata Grief of Gravity tells the story of two lovers: "Awareness", consciousness that connects us all and "Gravity". For billions of years, "Gravity" and "Awareness" intertwined until a light be...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U140) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

The opening Chorus from Bach's Cantata № 10: "Meine Seel erhebt den Herren". This arrangement requires four bassoons and either a soprano/mezzo, or a choir singing in unison (upper voices only). In 1...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U120) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

Im Jahr 1729 übernahm Bach in Leipzig die Leitung des einst von Telemann gegründeten 'Collegium musicum' und konzertierte daraufhin mindestens einmal wöchentlich mit diesem Ensemble im Zimmermannschen...

In 1729, Bach took over the direction of the "Collegium musicum" in Leipzig, which had once been founded by Telemann, and subsequently gave concerts with this ensemble at least once a week in Zimmerma...

Die Bauernkantate BWV 212 ist in Bachs Kantatenschaffen sowohl inhaltlich als auch musikalisch ein echtes Unikat. Zwar gehört sie zu Bachs Huldigungskantaten, doch handelt der Text nur indirekt vom Lo...

This piece, juxtaposed with a moment of medieval music around the theme of water, is a descent into the mythological depths of the Amazonian peoples. The score, which is neither opera nor oratorio, un...

This is a dramatic cantata for solo voice, solo violin and orchestra. It was first performed in Edinburgh with my daughter Olivia as the vocal soloist. The vocal part was not designed for a fully trai...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U126) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

Johann Sebastian Bach's librettist Salomon Franck called the congratulatory music for the court of Saxe-Weissenfels, which is generally known today as the "Hunting Cantata" BWV 208, "Frohlockender Göt...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U123) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U132) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

A Solo Cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach with Cembalo and Orchestra Accompaniment.

At last a superb musical to transform the face of the festive season! Nativity News is a tremendously fun Christmas cantata for young voices which tells the story of the birth of Jesus through the eye...

The cantata "Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende" BWV 28 for the Sunday after Christmas begins unusually: with an aria instead of the usual opening chorus, characterized by joyful, dance-like rhythms i...

Festive horn sounds open Bach's cantata Darzu ist erscheinen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40, first performed on 26.12.1723. The two inner chorales, which are inserted between the recitative and the correspond...

Bach's second cantata beginning with the text "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" BWV 62 was performed on 1 Advent (the only Advent Sunday with church music in Leipzig at the time) in 1724 and belongs to t...