SKU: CA.3603413

ISBN 9790007213992. Language: German. Text: Ebert, Jakob. Text: Jakob Ebert.

The present cantata is a setting of the first three verses of the hymn Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ, with a text by Jakob Ebert (1549-1614). In the variety of ways for deploying the instruments in concert and the alternation between the instrumental and vocal parts, it goes beyond the comparatively simple model found in other cantatas of Buxtehude. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3603400.

SKU: BT.DHP-1115071-050

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Le Lion de Belfort was composed for the official inauguration of the sculpture Le Lion de Belfort: an enormous red sandstone lion that dominates the landscape of the French city of Belfort. This 22 metre long and 11 metre high lion symbolises the heroic French resistance during the Prussian siege of Belfort in 1870-1871. The composer added a narrator and three-part choir to the concert band instrumentation, who utilise texts written specially for the occasion by Jean Ehret.The workâ??s première took place at the inauguration of Le Lion de Belfort on 28 November 2010, 130 years after sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) completed the statue.

Dit werk is geschreven voor de officiële inwijding van het beeldhouwwerk Le Lion de Belfort: een enorme uit rodezandsteen gebeeldhouwde leeuw die het gezicht van de Franse stad Belfort bepaalt. De 22 meter lange en 11 meterhoge leeuwsymboliseert het heldhaftige Franse verzet tijdens het beleg van Belfort door de Pruisen in 1870-1871. De componist voegde aan het harmonieorkest een verteller en driestemmig koor toe, waarbij hij gebruikmaakte van despeciaalvoor deze gelegenheid geschreven teksten van Jean Ehret.De première van de compositie vond - ter gelegenheid van die inwijding - plaats op 28 november 2010, maar liefst 130jaar nadat het standbeeld door de Franse beeldhouwer FrédéricAuguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) werd voltooid.

Le Lion de Belfort (Der Löwe von Belfort) wurde fu?r die offizielle Einweihung der gleichnamigen Skulptur geschrieben: Diese ist ein riesiger Löwe aus Sandstein, der das Bild der französischen Stadt Belfort prägt. Der 22 Meter lange und 11 Meter hohe Löwe symbolisiert den heldenhaften Widerstand der Franzosen während der preu�ischen Belagerung Belforts 1870-1871. Der Komponist ergänzte die Blasorchesterbesetzung um einen Erzähler und einen dreistimmigen Chor, die speziell fu?r diesen Anlass von Jean Ehret verfasste Texte vortragen.Die Premiere dieses Werke fand bei der Einweihung des Lion de Belfort am 28. November 2010 statt - 130 Jahre nachdem derBildhauer Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) die Statue vollendet hatte.

an de Haan a composé ce morceau pour lâ??inauguration officielle du Lion de Belfort, une sculpture monumentale en grès rose dominant la ville de Belfort (France). 22 m de long et 11 m de haut, ce lion symbolise la résistance héro que de la ville, assiégée par lâ??armée prussienne pendant la guerre de 1870-1871. Cette pièce est interpréter avec un Choeur mixte trois voix et un Récitant (Textes écrits spécialement par Jean Ehret).La première mondiale de lâ??oeuvre a eu lieu le 28 novembre 2010, dans le cadre de la cérémonie officielle inaugurant le Lion, cent trente ans après sa livraison par le sculpteur français, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904).

Le Lion de Belfort è un brano commissionato dallâ??Orchestra di Fiati della citt di Belfort in Francia. Jan de Haan ha composto questo brano per lâ??inaugurazione ufficiale del Leone di Belfort, una scultura monumentale in ceramica rosa che domina la citt . Questo brano può essere eseguito con coro misto a tre voci e una voce recitante (testi scritti da Jean Ehret).

SKU: CA.3116449

ISBN 9790007209070. Language: German/English.

This six-movement cantata was performed for the first time on 26 August 1725 in Leipzig. The text was written by Bach's Weimar cantata poet Salomon Franck and had been published earlier in 1715 in his collection Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer. Here, Bach bases his work around the form of the Weimar cantatas which take their texts from Franck's printed collection (BWV 132, 152, 161-163, 165): movements 1-5 are performed by vocal soloists, whilst only the final chorus is given to the chorus. The key concepts of the text are Barmherzigkeit [compassion], Erbarmen [mercy] and wahre Christenliebe [true Christian love]; the chamber music arrangement of the cantata corresponds with this. The two arias for tenor and alto, and the duet for soprano and bass do not contain da capo sections, but repeat the entire text in a condensed form. The instruments do not contrast as a rule, but are treated as a string group (movements 1, 4), duetting (movement 3), and as full unison (movement 5). What is remarkable in all three movements is the thematic linking of the instrumental ritornello parts with the vocal parts through which Bach achieves a kind of unity of form. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3116400.

SKU: CA.3116419

ISBN 9790007209063. Language: German/English.

This six-movement cantata was performed for the first time on 26 August 1725 in Leipzig. The text was written by Bach's Weimar cantata poet Salomon Franck and had been published earlier in 1715 in his collection Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer. Here, Bach bases his work around the form of the Weimar cantatas which take their texts from Franck's printed collection (BWV 132, 152, 161-163, 165): movements 1-5 are performed by vocal soloists, whilst only the final chorus is given to the chorus. The key concepts of the text are Barmherzigkeit [compassion], Erbarmen [mercy] and wahre Christenliebe [true Christian love]; the chamber music arrangement of the cantata corresponds with this. The two arias for tenor and alto, and the duet for soprano and bass do not contain da capo sections, but repeat the entire text in a condensed form. The instruments do not contrast as a rule, but are treated as a string group (movements 1, 4), duetting (movement 3), and as full unison (movement 5). What is remarkable in all three movements is the thematic linking of the instrumental ritornello parts with the vocal parts through which Bach achieves a kind of unity of form. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3116400.

SKU: HL.277282

UPC: 840126915006. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Program note:

Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra, and is in three sections, played without pause. In the 16th century, a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England, with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home, with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are wonderful exercises in brevity and sometimes clumsy rhymemaking, and were usually prefaced by a lengthy explanation as to their merits; the title of one of the first such volumes in English is: The Psalter of Dauid newely translated into Englysh metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men. I thought it would be appropriate to set one of these introductions, and the first section of Looking Up sets the preface to Thomas Ravenscroft's psalter (1621), in which he writes: “The singing of Psalmes (assay the Doctors) comforteth the sorrowfull, pacifieth the angry, strengtheneth the weake, humbleth the proud, gladdeth the humble, stirres up the slow, reconcileth enemies, lifteth up the heart to heavenly things, and uniteth the Creature to his Creator.”

It begins meditatively, but eventually grows agitated and fervent, with a vision of the “quire of Angels and Saints” “redoubling anddescanting” - an ecstatic and terrifying vision of the skies opening up. Ravenscroft then encourages the use of instrumental musicfor worship, at which point, a long, acrobatic orchestral interlude with jagged edges antagonizes the choir, who sing a kind of private, anxious meditation on two pitches.

One of the most delicious biblical texts is an Apocryphal prayer known as the Benedicite or the Prayer of the Three Children (the same who were rescued by an angel after King Nebuchadnezzar tried to have them burnt in an oven for not bowing to his image). The text is repetitive, obsessive, and a gift to composers - each line is an invocation of an element of the natural world, followed by the phrase, “blesse ye the Lord, praise him & magnify him for ever.” In Looking Up, the setting begins with three solo voices, and then grows to include the whole choir, itemizing the whole of creation. The idea that these boys are spared from the furnace and then five minutes later are saying, “O ye the fire and warming heate, blesse ye the Lord...” has always felt very loaded to me, and the orchestra plays with this conflict between joyful praise and a more terrible (in the 16th-century sense) awefor the divine.

The text for the third, and shortest, section is taken from Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) A Song to David, purportedly written during his confinement in a mental asylum. This ode to King David points out how David, as the author of some of the Psalms, observes the whole world from the “clustering spheres” to the “nosegay in the vale.&rdquo.

SKU: CA.3116519

ISBN 9790007209124. Language: German/English. Text: Franck, Salomo.

The cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad (O Holy spirit's solemn rite) BWV 165 is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions and was presumably first performed in the Weimar Schlosskirche for Trinity Sunday in 1715. With a simple instrumentation of only strings and basso continuo (including bassoon), the cantata offers an alternative to the later Leipzig cantatas for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, also with regard to the vivid interpretation of the text in the librettos by Salomon Franck. In the two expressive recitatives and the three distinctively different arias, Bach repeatedly emphasizes the central words of the text, which focuses on the meaning of the rebirth of the spirit through baptism. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3116500.

SKU: CA.3116500

ISBN 9790007186807. Language: German/English. Text: Franck, Salomo.

The cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad (O Holy spirit's solemn rite) BWV 165 is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions and was presumably first performed in the Weimar Schlosskirche for Trinity Sunday in 1715. With a simple instrumentation of only strings and basso continuo (including bassoon), the cantata offers an alternative to the later Leipzig cantatas for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, also with regard to the vivid interpretation of the text in the librettos by Salomon Franck. In the two expressive recitatives and the three distinctively different arias, Bach repeatedly emphasizes the central words of the text, which focuses on the meaning of the rebirth of the spirit through baptism.