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

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...

Bach composed BWV 153 as the fourth cantata in the second Leipzig cantata cycle, the so-called "choral cantata cycle". The hymn "Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder", written in the 16th century to the melody...

The three-verse hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" was written by Philipp Nicolai and first appears in his "Freudenspiegel des ewigen Lebens". The poet of the other text sections of the cantata is...

New edition of the New Year's cantata, previously only published from 19th century copies, based on a manuscript from 1762 which only became known in 1971; with a considerably different and improved t...

A motetic choral movement without obbligato instruments opens the cantata Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin zum Sonntag Septuagesima 1724. This is followed by an almost dance-like, song-like aria "Murr...

The sources show that Bach's cantata was intended for the Sunday of Jubilate. The text, whose composer is still unknown today, is based on the juxtaposition of sadness and joy in the Gospel for this S...

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

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 Trinitatis. Soli SAB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Obca, Str, Org - Tonart c-dorisch

Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Published in collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig with the unfinished revision (1739) in the appendix. The St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Bach's Leipzig period. In contrast...

Alongside the double-choir St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the Mass in B minor, the St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig...

Can be combined with the performance material of older editions (also with the NBA). Bach's St. John Passion is one of the greatest Passion settings in music history. It underwent several fundamental...

In good time for the Reformation anniversary year 2017, this edition offers four distinctive movements from Johann Sebastian Bach's Reformation cantatas in arrangements for choir and organ. From the c...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 9-movement Magnificat from 1749, his first major Berlin vocal work, is one of the most sonorous and, in the vocal solo parts, also one of the most demanding settings of the...

The autograph contains no reference to the participation of instruments, and there is no doubt that a purely vocal performance would do full justice to the work. On the other hand, there is nothing to...

When we hear the words "Johann Sebastian Bach" and "Magnificat", we immediately think of his famous Magnificat in D major BWV 243 or E flat major BWV 243a. However, during his time as St. Thomas' Cant...

At less than 20 years of age, the youngest son of the Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach broke away from the Lutheran musical tradition of his family: Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) went to...