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Bach structured the cantata six movements and scored it for soprano and bass soloists, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of oboe d'amore, two violins, viola, violoncello piccolo, organ and basso continuo. [2] Klaus Hofmann summarizes: "Bach has clothed his music in the 'wedding garments' of exquisite scoring". [4] Sinfonia
The following is a list of works by P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious Bach family member, the alter ego of composer Peter Schickele.The first section lists, in alphabetical order, those works which have been recorded, are listed in the annotated catalogue of P. D. Q. Bach music in The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, and/or are listed on the Theodore Presser website.
Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Dearest Jesus, my desire), [1] BWV 32, [a] is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.He composed the dialogue cantata (Concerto in Dialogo) in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 13 January 1726 as part of his third cantata cycle.
The text marks a farewell to love in the world: "Stirb in mir, Welt und alle deine Liebe" (Die in me, world and all your love). [1] The music of the aria, marked "siciliano" as the slow movement of the harpsichord concerto, has been regarded as a "farewell to worldly life", [4] in "a mood of heart-stopping intensity", [3] also as a mystic ...
Bach structured the cantata in six movements, beginning with a duet, followed by a series of alternating recitatives and arias and concluded by a chorale. [7] Similar to several other cantatas on words by Franck, it is scored for a small ensemble: four vocal soloists (soprano (S), alto (A), tenor (T) and bass (B)), oboe (Ob), two violins (Vl), viola (Va), and basso continuo (Bc) including ...
The St Mark Passion (German: Markus-Passion), BWV 247, is a lost Passion setting by Johann Sebastian Bach, first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday, 23 March 1731.Though Bach's music is lost, the libretto by Picander is still extant, and from this, the work can to some degree be reconstructed.
The music of the BWV 208.3 version, performed on the occasion of the name day of the Elector, also likely differed little or nothing from previous versions. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Other Bach cantatas in honour of the Electors of Saxony are known, for example Ihr Häuser des Himmels, ihr scheinenden Lichter , BWV 193.1 , a name day cantata written in 1727 ...
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: