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The cantata Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei BWV 179 opens with a motet-like choral movement in the stile antico without obbligato instruments. This is initially a counter-fugue:...

Kantate zum 20. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Blfl f1, Fl, Ob, Obca, Vc pic, Str, Org

The Whitsun cantata "Erwünschtes Freudenlicht" BWV 184 is based on a Köthen composition, presumably a congratulatory cantata, whose instrumental parts (the only surviving ones) Bach continued to use i...

A (rare) autograph date (14.7.1715) confirms that the cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe was intended for the 4th Sunday after Trinitatis 1715. Like many Weimar cantatas, it is a decidedly ch...

Bach's first Leipzig New Year's cantata has only survived in fragments. Neither the autograph score nor the vocal score of the original source material have survived in full. This applies in particula...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

Neben der h-Moll-Messe existieren von Bach bekanntlich vier weitere, kleinere Messkompositionen, die sog. Lutherischen oder Kyrie-Gloria-Messen. Trotz ihrer hohen musikalischen Qualitäten, stehen sie...

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...

Dieterich Buxtehude composed his greatest oratorical work, the cantata cycle Membra Jesu nostri, for the Passiontide of 1680 and dedicated it to his friend and Swedish court conductor Gustav Düben. In...

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...

The cantata Nun danket alle Gott cannot be assigned to any of Telemann's known cantata years. Its designation "Tempore Messis" in the title of the only surviving source suggests that it was composed o...

Hosanna to the Son of David opens Telemann's cantata cycle "Musicalisches Lob Gottes in der Gemeine des Herrn" as a cantata for the 1st Advent. The year is based on poems by the Hamburg Jacobi chief p...

The Frankfurt Whitsun cantata from 1717 presents the choir and the four soloists with rewarding tasks and features a virtuoso recorder player in the opening chorus and in two of the three arias.

The Trauer-Actus is probably the earliest work of the Grimma Telemann cantata complex. Its textual and musical structure suggests that the work was composed during Telemann's time as a pupil in Hildes...

Vivaldi's employment at the "Ospedale della Pietà", one of the four orphanages in Venice where young girls received intensive musical training, prompted him to compose sacred works.

The double-choir psalm setting Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) is one of the most important works by the church composer Vivaldi. Here he draws on the old Venetian tradition of polychoral music, whose composit...

By repeating the complete text, the through-composed motet is divided into two parts, preceded by an instrumental prelude and followed by a coda ("Alleluia").

Since the two verifiable autographs of the Offertorium Misericordias Domini have been lost, Robert Münster has for the first time used the copies he has found from the Munich court music for this new...