I Thank You God (Choral Score)

SKU: CA.970270

ISBN 9790007239039. Key: E flat major. Language: German. Text: Rinckart, Martin. Text: Martin Rinckart.

Score available separately - see item CA.970200.

SKU: CA.3601605

ISBN 9790007112578. Language: German.

This work has survived in an autograph, unfortunately undated, preserved in the Duben Collection. The cantata is a setting of Ecclesiasticus 50, verses 24-26. This composition is one of the most richly scored vocal compositions of Buxtehude. A ritornello, which includes a fanfare of trumpets, and a longer vocal section based on Nun danket alle Gott create the work's structure. In Nun danket alle Gott Buxtehude indicated in detail, in at least one instance, the use of an a cappella entrance of the choir. If the sections without instrumental accompaniment are sung by soloists, the choir is added in the tutti passages. Score available separately - see item CA.3601600.

SKU: CA.322620

ISBN 9790007158088. Key: G major. Language: German. Text: Rinckart, Martin. Text: Martin Rinckart.

SKU: CA.9159700

ISBN 9790007116736. Key: F major. Language: German. Text: Rinckart, Martin. Text: Martin Rinckart.

SKU: CA.113100

ISBN 9790007000882. Key: G major. Language: German.

SKU: CA.1002706

ISBN 9790007181345. Text language: German.

The collection Polyhymnia Caduceatrix & Panegyrica of 1619 is rightly regarded as the high point in Michael Praetorius's output. It combines Solennische Friedt- und Frewden-Concert: which Praetorius as a travelling musician had composed largely for festive occasions - he writes of Kayser: Konig: Chur: vnd Furstlichen zusammen Kunfften - and also for furnehme Capellen vnd Kirchen. In these chorale concerti the highly modern, Italian style and the Protestant chorale combine and form a symbiosis which showed the way forward for the history of German music. The chorale settings draw on influences from Venetian polychoral music, use ritornelli and employ obbligato instruments in a way which is beyond compare, even in contemporary Italy. Here we see a quite different side of the master from the composer of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen. And above all, Praetorius always remains a practical musician who ensures that these breathtaking choral concerti can also be effectively performed with smaller forces, sometimes considerably reduced ones. Praetorius gives the verses of the well-known Easter hymn Christ ist erstanden to the concertists (soloists or small choir), who can perform these in alternating scorings. At the beginning, between the verses, and at the end, a magnificent Halleluja occurs as a ritornello, which can be performed by up to 5 choirs - ad lib, of course. Score available separately - see item CA.1002700.

SKU: MN.60-9010

UPC: 688670690105.

Classic hymn text from Didache featuring RENDEZ A DIEU. Brass writing adds flair of Venetian-Gabrieli School (the Renaissance). Post-Communion/Thanksgiving hymn.