SKU: HL.49005171
ISBN 9790001055468. UPC: 073999698114. 9.0x12.0x0.082 inches.
2 organs (keyboard instruments) or 2 harps or 1 harp and 1 keyboard instrument.
SKU: OU.9780193707948
ISBN 9780193707948. 12 x 8 inches.
This ground-breaking collection revives the music sung by girls and boys in the chapels of the Charity Institutions of Georgian London. It contains ten mostly short anthems for varied liturgical use by men and women composers, scored for one or two upper voices featuring solo, duet, semi-chorus and tutti combinations, with organ accompaniment.
SKU: CA.3207619
ISBN 9790007138974. Language: German.
The cantata is one of the few surviving vocal works which Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composed during the eighteen years which he spent as organist and director of music at the Marktkirche in Halle (1746-1764). This cantata, published here for the first time in more than 250 years, was written to introduce the autumn sermons in 1752. A musically and technically demanding composition, it consists of two substantial choral movements, partly concertante and partly polyphonic, based on two biblical utterances. They surround a sensitive, while at the same time strictly contrapuntal, duet for soprano and alto with basso continuo in which God's sweet teaching for the soul is described as the true manna of the faithful, forming a link with the sermons which are to follow. In the compactness of the musical construction and its intensity of expression W. F. Bach was clearly following in the footsteps of his father in this work. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3207600.
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