Par CANTAGREL GILLES. «Ce livre est né de toutes les curiosités que suscitent Bach et sa musique. Combien de fois ne m'a-t-on posé les mêmes questions, révélant les incompréhensions qui persistent autour du cantor de Leipzig ' Un compositeur très peu connu de son vivant ' Faux, on l'appelait alors le 'mondialement célêbre Bach'. Oublié aprês sa mort en 1750 ' Pas du tout, Beethoven et Mozart joua…

Klavierauszug -Revised edition. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did not leave us a definitive version either in print or fair copy. The sources give evidence of four different versions used at four performances…

Organ Chorales From The Neumeister Collection Yale University Manuscript 'Lm 4708'. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. In 1985 Christoph Wolff, working at Yale University, discovered a collection of 82 chorales compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1756-1840) which contained 38 compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. They reveal great stylistic variety whose forebears stem from the Northern German organ…

Par SCHNEIDER ENJOTT. This frenetic assortment of familiar chorale melodies by Martin Luther was composed to mark the celebrations of Luther’s music (and the 800th anniversary of the choir of St Thomas in Leipzig) in 2012. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott [A mighty fortress is our God] appears as a powerful ritornello theme, elaborated with tender lyricism just before the end. A chorale setting of …

Kantate Zum Reformationsfest (In Der Bearbeitung Von Wilhelm Friedemann Bach). Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The present cantata draws on two of Bach’s earlier works. The original form was the cantata 'Alles, was von Gott geboren' [Weimar 1715, BWV 80a]. A second version [BWV 80b] was written between 1727 and 1731 in Leipzig. The instrumentation of movements 1 and 5 come from a later adaptation by Wi…

Par HOLLIGER HEINZ. Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: ‘We should let ourselves be cradled | As if on a boat rocking on the sea.’ These lines have been taken from the poem ‘Mnemosyne’ (Memory) by Hölderlin. The piece starts in the rhythm of old gondola songs. But sometimes it l…

Leopold J. Beer (1865-1956) was a composer, arranger and editor, who is best known for his many pedagogical publications, including the highly successful Leipzig range of Piano music. His Concertino in E Minor (Op. 47) is scored for Viola and Piano. It is the earlier of his two compositions in the Easy Concertos and Concertinos series. / Alto Et Piano

Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Among the vocal compositions incorrectly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, the cantata has a place of its own, because its tonal language approaches the unmistakable style of the Thomaskantor. This applies especially to its choral movements and recitatives. In the surviving sources, only one of which dates back to the 18th centu…

Lat. Quatre courts Masses, composé de Kyrie et Gloria seulement, qui écrit de Bach à Leipzig pendant la 1737-38, doivent leur existence à une commission du comte Franz Anton von Sporck, de Lissa en Bohême. / Travaux Pour Choeurs

Kommt, Eilet Und Laufet. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Critical new edition 2004, edited by Ulrich Leisinger: Carus 31. 249; old edition, edited by Dieter Hellmann: Carus 31. 249/50. Parody of the secula cantata 'Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen' BWV 249a. Like the Ascension Oratorio BWV 11, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio BWV 249 is entirely and unjustly overshadowed by his t…

Hercules at the crossroads (Dramma per musica) - BWV 213. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. What does Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio¨ have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the fall of 1733, with the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Crown Prince Friedrich Christian fast approaching, Johann Sebastian Bach composed the secular cantata “Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen” (Let us …

Schumann 'Scènes Forêt', op. 82 datent de l'année 1848-1849. Ce fut la période la plus créative du compositeur, mais celui qui a été marquée par des troubles révolutionnaires et l'incertitude politique. Ainsi que des compositions chorales et les grandes oeuvres dramatiques, y compris l'opéra 'Genoveva' et 'Manfred' de Schumann créé le piano, Scènes intimes cycle de la forêt, inspiré par les illust…

Deux cents cantates inconnues ! Nous ne serions pas loin de la vérité en nous plaçant au niveau du mélomane moyen qui ne connaît des cantates sacrées de Bach que " Jésus que ma joie demeure " et le " Choral du veilleur " dans leurs transcriptions pour piano... Ce livre est un manuel pour le mélomane de bonne volonté désireux de découvrir d'autres trésors. Contrairement à de vieilles idées reçues, …

Fassung Ii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion ranks alongside the St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the B minor Mass as one of the great vocal works from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he substantially revis…

Full Score. Par BERLIOZ HECTOR. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), considered the father of modern orchestration, possessed an intuitive musical genius all the more remarkable for his limited formal musical education. A brilliant colorist, a master of the unexpected rhythmic break, he brought a new symphonic richness to Romantic music. Both damned and venerated by his contemporaries — Mendelssohn conside…