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For more Bach transcriptions by Busoni, see: List of adaptations by Ferruccio Busoni#Transcriptions (BV B 20 to 115) Bach-Busoni Editions; Charles Gounod's Ave Maria is based on Prelude No. 1 of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Francisco Tárrega transcribed a variety of Bach works, including his Fugue from Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
Bach scored the work for two vocal parts (alto and tenor), a four-part choir, and a Baroque chamber ensemble of recorders, strings and continuo. In the alto recitative (movement 4), accompanied by all instruments, Bach creates the images of sleep, of waking up, and of funeral bells, the latter in the recorders and pizzicato of the
In addition to CD and DVD recordings, the J.S. Bach-Stiftung operates a channel on YouTube, [2] where selected recordings (e.g., excerpts and including individual movements from cantatas). And, since August 2015 the foundation provides its own streaming media platform, from which the complete discography is obtainable.
Freue dich, erlöste Schar (Rejoice, redeemed flock), BWV 30.2, BWV 30, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.It is one of his later realisations in the genre: he composed it for the Feast of John the Baptist (24 June) in 1738, and based its music largely on Angenehmes Wiederau, a secular cantata which he had composed a year earlier.
Zuzana Růžičková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈzuzana ˈruːʒɪtʃkovaː]) (14 January 1927 – 27 September 2017) was a Czech harpsichordist.An interpreter of classical and baroque music, Růžičková was the first harpsichordist to record Johann Sebastian Bach's complete works for keyboard, [1] [2] in recordings made in the 1960s and 1970s for Erato Records.
Masses, Passions, Oratorios is the subject of the second series of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA, New Bach Edition), [1] a publication of Johann Sebastian Bach's music from 1954 to 2007. In the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV, catalogue of Bach's compositions) masses, passions and oratorios refers to two chapters:
W YA50 \ Fugue on BACH for organ in F major W YB22 \ Violin Sonata Op. 20 No.2 in D major W YB43 \ Trio for flute or violin, violin & continuo in B flat major W YB47 \ Trio for flute, flute or violin & cello in C major W YC90 \ Keyboard Concerto in E flat major W YC91 \ Keyboard Concerto in A major W YLA3 \ Keyboard Sonata in D major
Bach went on to complete many other works in the same genre, contributing complete cantata cycles for all occasions of the liturgical year. John Eliot Gardiner described it as Bach's "first-known attempt at painting narrative in music". [4] Christ lag in Todes Banden is a chorale cantata, a style in which both text and music are based on a hymn.