SKU: CA.3102809
ISBN 9790007205324. Language: German/English. Text: Neumeister, Erdmann. Text: Erdmann Neumeister.
Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3102800.
SKU: CA.3107409
ISBN 9790007044749. Key: C major / a minor. Language: German/English. Text: von Ziegler, Christiane Mariane. Text: Christiane Mariane von Ziegler.
After the second setting by Bach. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3107400.
SKU: CA.3102609
ISBN 9790007205256. Language: German/English.
Bach's cantata BWV 26 belongs to the Leipzig cycle of chorale cantatas, 1724/25, and it was first performed on 19 November 1724. The underlying 13-vers hymn by Michael Franck provided Bach and his unidentified librettist with an abundance of metaphors and comparisons which, from verse to verse and movement to movement, illustrate the fleeting and transitory nature of earthly life: an impressive musical-poetic exposition of potent baroque pictures of vanity.. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3102600.
SKU: CA.3118311
ISBN 9790007050405. Key: A minor. Language: German/English. Text: von Ziegler, Christiane Mariane. Text: Christiane Mariane von Ziegler.
The cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun [They will banish you] BWV 183 for Exaudi Sunday is one of the cantatas composed on texts by the Leipzig poetess Christiane Mariane von Ziegler with which Bach concluded his second annual cycle of cantatas after he had abandoned the annual cycle of chorale cantatas at Easter 1725. The cantata opens with Jesus's words from the Sunday gospel reading in an accompagnato recitative for bass - representing the vox Christi - accompanied by four oboes which, together with the strings, are also deployed in the cantata's second accompagnato recitative. The first of the virtuoso arias is accompanied by violoncello piccolo, the second by two oboes da caccia together with the string ensemble. The cantata concludes with an unusually animated final chorale. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3118300.
SKU: CA.3110509
ISBN 9790007047672. Key: G minor. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3110500.
SKU: CA.3106309
ISBN 9790007043704. Key: C major. Language: German/English.
With its scoring for a large number of performers, who according to earlier practice were divided into various groups, this Cantata is clearly a festive work. In the richness of its scoring it was equalled, but not surpassed, by Bach's first Leipzig Cantate for the Election of the Town Council, BWV 119, of 1723. It is noticeable that the words of BWV 63 relate to Christmas only in the recitatives, while the choruses and arias express the praise of God in general terms. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3106300.
SKU: CA.3108013
ISBN 9790007045371. Key: D major. Language: German/English. Text: Luther, Martin. Text: Martin Luther, Salomo Franck.
Bach's Reformation cantata, based on what is probably Martin Luther's most famous hymn, evolved over a period of several years. At the beginning was a Weimar cantata for Oculi Sunday 1716, now missing, which was based on the hymn with an instrumental quotation in the opening aria and with the final chorale. In the Leipzig years around 1730, Bach wrote a cantata for Reformation Day using this material. It began with the first verses of Luther's hymn in a simple four-part setting and also included the other verses. Later on, in the 1730s or 1740s, Bach replaced the introductory chorale movement with a chorale setting which was unique, spacious and motet-like in its style; this - uniquely in this respect - incorporated the choral writing in an instrumental canon for oboes and organ continuo. The powerful opening chorus is followed by recitatives and arias which reflect the full breadth of Bach's art of word painting and emotion. One of Bach's most magnificent cantatas, one of the greatest works in the history of music. In addition to the complete performance material the arrangements of movements 1 and 5 (with 3 trumpets, timpani as playing score) by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach are available (Carus 3108089). Score and part available separately - see item CA.3108000.
SKU: CA.3104109
ISBN 9790007205775. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3104100.
SKU: CA.3111009
ISBN 9790007048129. Key: D major / b minor. Language: German/English. Text: Lehms, Georg Christian. Text: Georg Christian Lehms.
Score available separately - see item CA.3111000.
SKU: CA.3109609
ISBN 9790007046835. Key: F major. Language: German/English. Text: Creutziger, Elisabeth. Text: Elisabeth Creutziger.
Score available separately - see item CA.3109600.
SKU: CA.5507509
ISBN 9790007226794. Text language: German/English.
For the magnificent opening of the oratorio season at the beginning of 1736 Handel presented a composition which, like hardly any of his other oratorios, gave him the opportunity to display his musical artistry: John Dryden's ode Alexander's Feast or the Power of Music, published in 1696, demonstrates the power of music by the example of the ancient hero, Alexander the Great. From the impressive lament on the death of Darius, the King of Persia, to the boisterous Praise of Bacchus Handel avails himself of the entire breadth of the musical representation of the emotions and the possibilities for expression. In the text by Newburg Hamilton added at the end of work St. Cecilia elevates the events of the ancient heathen story, which Handel expressed in plastic, skillful polyphony. Later, this homage to the patron saint of church music, Handel also present the opportunity to perform the work on St. Cecilia's Day (22 November). For the first time the present new edition is based consistently on Handel's conducting score, which he used for his own performances of the oratorio, thus not only eliminating timeworn errors, but also offering clarity concerning the choruses, the arias and recitatives, actually performed in Handel's concerts, as well as their sequence of performance. The new Carus edition offers two performance versions: the version of the premiere in 1736, as well as a revised version from 1751. Furthermore, the inclusion of the Concerto for Harp HWV 294 (CV 55.294) is also possible; Handel composed this work especially for Alexander's Feast (as an illustration of Timotheus, the ancient poet who played the lyre). For this purpose the edition contains the appropriate alternatives for the sequence of the movements. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.5507500.
SKU: CA.3102409
ISBN 9790007205133. Language: German/English.
Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3102400.
SKU: CA.3109409
ISBN 9790007046651. Key: D major. Language: German/English. Text: Kindermann, Balthasar. Text: Balthasar Kindermann.
Score available separately - see item CA.3109400.
SKU: CA.3108811
ISBN 9790007046125. Key: D major / b minor. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3108800.
SKU: CA.3108509
ISBN 9790007045821. Key: C minor. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3108500.
SKU: CA.3109709
ISBN 9790007046927. Key: B flat major. Language: German/English. Text: Fleming, Paul. Text: Paul Fleming.
Liturgical intention unknown. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3109700.
SKU: CA.3106909
ISBN 9790007044275. Key: D major. Language: German/English.
Reworking of the cantata of the same name for the 12th Sunday after Trinity Sunday (BWV 69a). Original work BWV 69a from 1732; reworking as a cantata for the changing of the town council from the last years of Bach's life.
SKU: CA.3113509
ISBN 9790007208042. Language: German/English.
Bach composed BWV 135 as the fourth cantata in the second annual cycle of Leipzig cantatas. The hymn Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder was written in the 16th century to the tune of Herzlich tut mich verlangen. The unidentified Leipzig librettist of the 2nd cycle of chorale cantatas made free use of this hymn as the basis of an exemplary cantata text. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3113500.
SKU: CA.3114759
ISBN 9790007208479. Language: German/English.
Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3114700.
SKU: CA.3949312
ISBN 9790007056384. Language: German/English.
The cantata text by Erdmann Neumeister known from Bach's work of the same name (BWV 61), appears here in a much shorter composition by Telemann. Definitely it has a charm of its own. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3949300.
SKU: CA.3949311
ISBN 9790007056377. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.3119511
ISBN 9790007210380. Text language: German/English.
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 afield. The only surviving version of the work dates from the last years of Bach's life. The opulently-scored first part begins and ends with grand choral movements, and Bach scored both parts for soloists and for chorus. At the centre of the cantata is an exceptionally sensitive bass aria, probably one of Bach's most modern vocal compositions of all. A chorale movement (Nun danket all and bringet Ehr/ Now thank we all and offer praise) with obbligato horns concludes the cantata as the second part after the consummation. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3119500.
SKU: CA.3102411
ISBN 9790007205140. Language: German/English.
Score and part available separately - see item CA.3102400.
SKU: CA.3111211
ISBN 9790007048310. Key: G major. Language: German/English. Text: Meuslin (Musculus), Wolfgang. Text: Wolfgang Meuslin (Musculus).
Score available separately - see item CA.3111200.
SKU: CA.3109411
ISBN 9790007046668. Key: D major. Language: German/English. Text: Kindermann, Balthasar. Text: Balthasar Kindermann.
SKU: CA.3112909
ISBN 9790007207762. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3112900.
SKU: CA.3109209
ISBN 9790007046477. Key: B minor. Language: German/English. Text: Gerhardt, Paul. Text: Paul Gerhardt.
Score available separately - see item CA.3109200.
SKU: CA.3110111
ISBN 9790007047313. Key: D minor. Language: German/English. Text: Moller, Martin. Text: Martin Moller.
Score available separately - see item CA.3110100.
SKU: CA.3111309
ISBN 9790007048396. Key: B minor. Language: German/English. Text: Ringwaldt, Bartholomaus. Text: Bartholomaus Ringwaldt.
Score available separately - see item CA.3111300.
