Carus Choir Sheet Music for all voice parts

The shepherd music so popular in the Baroque period characterizes the cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre BWV 104: two oboes, waist, triplets, dots and organ dots in the opening chorus, oboes d'amore in the...

During Bach's first months in Leipzig, he composed the cantata "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht" BWV 105 for the 9th Sunday after Trinity (25.7.1723). The opening chorus, based on two m...

The "Actus tragicus" or "God's time is the very best time" BWV 106 is one of Bach's best-known and most appreciated works with an unbroken resonance to this day - a "work of genius that even great mas...

Kantate zum 7. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli STB, Coro SATB, [Corca], 2 Fl, 2 Obda, Vl solo, Str, Org

The cantata "Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe" BWV 108 for Sunday Cantate is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his secon...

The cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben BWV 109, composed for the 21st Sunday after Trinity in 1723, is characterized as a dialogue between unbelief and faith: While the dense openi...

Kantate zum 3. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Str, Org

The cantata "Der Herr ist mein Hirte" dates from 1731 and was evidently intended as a supplement to the choral cantata cycle, which Bach left unfinished at Easter 1725. Bach adopted the five-stanza po...

Kantate zum 17. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, 2 Ob, Str, Org

Kantate zum 22. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, Obda, Vc pic, Str, Org

Kantate zum 25. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Obda, 2 Vl, Va, Cor, Bc

Destination unknownThe cantata "Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut" BWV 117 belongs to a smaller group of Bach's choral cantatas which are based solely on the text of the song, including the three recit...

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...

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...

The cantata "Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille" BWV 120 became particularly well-known due to its second movement, which was reused in the Credo of the Mass in B minor. The cantata is one of the six...

Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Cor, Obda, Str, Org

Kantate - Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Fl, Ob, [Cor], 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org

Soli ATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Tr, 2 Vl, Va, Bc Sprache: deutsch/englisch

The cantata BWV 127 belongs to the year of choral cantatas that Bach performed in Leipzig in 1724/25. It is closely related to the "St. John Passion", which was performed in its second version on Good...

After the end of the chorale cantata year at the end of March 1725, Bach set a series of cantata texts by the Leipzig poet Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, who ran one of the first literary-musical sal...

The cantata "Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott" BWV 129 is one of the choral cantatas that Bach subsequently added to the choral cantata cycle that was discontinued at Easter 1725; it was not composed u...

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 "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 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 "Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß" for the 3rd Easter in 1724 is one of the older cantatas that Bach integrated into his first Leipzig cantata cycle; it was originally composed in Kö...