Cantata Sheet Music Downloads

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...

Only the text and the last page of the autograph score of the Christmas Cantata Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe BWV 197.1 (197a) have survived, beginning with the end of the 2nd aria. This, along with the c...

Only the text and the last sheet of the autograph score have survived from the Christmas cantata "Glory to God in the highest" BWV 197.1 (197a), beginning with the end of the 2nd aria. This, as well a...

Only the text and the last sheet of the autograph score have survived from the Christmas cantata "Glory to God in the highest" BWV 197.1 (197a), beginning with the end of the 2nd aria. This, as well a...

Only the text and the last sheet of the autograph score have survived from the Christmas cantata "Glory to God in the highest" BWV 197.1 (197a), beginning with the end of the 2nd aria. This, as well a...

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...

Rheinberger’s large-scale Christmas cantata Der Stern von Bethlehem (The Star of Bethlehem) is one of the composer’s most popular and best-known works. It retells the Christmas story in nine lyrical s...

Anniversario Dell' Dolore is a poignant work by composer Juraj Filas, dedicated to Mary Davidson. It was composed for choir and string orchestra and unfolds in two contrasting but deeply interconnecte...

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...

I composed this cantata for the Edinburgh Gaelic Choir. The Scottish Gaelic text is by the poet Myles Campbell (Maoilios Caimbeul) from the Isle of Skye. The text is a dialog between the ocean and man...

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...

I composed this cantata for the Edinburgh Gaelic Choir. The Scottish Gaelic text is by the poet Myles Campbell (Maoilios Caimbeul) from the Isle of Skye. The text is a dialog between the ocean and man...

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...

Anniversario Dell' Dolore is a poignant work by composer Juraj Filas, dedicated to Mary Davidson. It was composed for choir and string orchestra and unfolds in two contrasting but deeply interconnecte...

Anniversario Dell' Dolore is a poignant work by composer Juraj Filas, dedicated to Mary Davidson. It was composed for choir and string orchestra and unfolds in two contrasting but deeply interconnecte...