Johann Sebastian Bach

für Soli (SATB), gem. Chor und Orchester Chorpartitur

mit Anhang: 4 weihnachtliche Einlagesätze aus der 1. Fassung Es-Dur BWV 243a

In Leipzig, in 1723, Bach composed an initial version of the ''Magnificat'' in E-flat Major for Christmas Vespers that year, with added Latin text related to Christmas. And then in 1733, Bach composed...

Gloria in excelsis Deo was performed in 1745 in Leipzig for Christmas Day, as indicated by the heading on the manuscript in Bach's own handwriting: "Jesu Juva Festo Nativitatis Christi -- Celebration...

The original version of the popular J. S. Bach Magnificat in D, up a semitone. The same work with some slight differences in the familiar choral sections but more importantly, the addition of four Chr...

S.A.T.B. and Organ

From Christmas Oratorio

L'immenso lavoro di Johann Sebastian Bach contiene una ventina di cantate profane tra le quali la Cantata della Caccia (BWV 208) dalla quale è estratta Sheep May Safely Graze (Schafe können sicher wei...

Der festlich-schlichte Choralsatz stammt aus dem 'Weihnachtsoratorium', die Fuge ist eine Transkription einer kunstvollen Choralbearbeitung für Orgel.

Bach's well-known church cantata 'Schwingt freudig euch empor' BWV 36 (Up joyous raise your song), first heard in its final version on First Advent Sunday in 1731 at the Leipzig Nikolaikirche, can be...

La nota cantata ecclesiastica di Bach "Schwingt freudig euch empor" BWV 36, eseguita per la prima volta nella sua versione definitiva nella Nikolaikirche di Lipsia il 1° Avvento 1731, risale a una can...

This six-movement chorale cantata was first performed on 26 December 1724. The text is based on the Lutheran translation of the early Christian hymn A solis ortus cardinem. The outer movements frame t...

This six-movement chorale cantata was first performed on 26 December 1724. The text is based on the Lutheran translation of the early Christian hymn A solis ortus cardinem. The outer movements frame t...

This six-movement chorale cantata was first performed on 26 December 1724. The text is based on the Lutheran translation of the early Christian hymn A solis ortus cardinem. The outer movements frame t...

Il testo della cantata corale, eseguita per la prima volta il 26 dicembre 1724, si basa sulla traduzione di Lutero dell'inno paleocristiano A solis ortus cardinem. L'opera, in sei movimenti, contiene...

Per la sua cantata BWV 152, Bach scelse una strumentazione insolitamente cameristica, ancora oggi molto colorata e vivace: Le due parti vocali soliste sono accompagnate da flauto dolce, oboe, viola d'...

Bach was not able to use the Weimar Advent cantata 'Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht' BWV 186a in Leipzig, as there was no performance of church music there between the 1st Sunday of Advent and Christmas. B...