SKU: BR.OB-32108-11

ISBN 9790004343050. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other large-scale works among his oeuvre which are largely presumed lost today, apart from those that were published as first editions. Until now, only insufficient or erroneous editions of the Magnificat have been available, a piano reduction has not been available at all. Beyond that, editor David Erler has succeeded in tracking down new evidence on the authorship of four Laudes (insertion movements for performances over Christmas) and to carry out their altogether new placement in the main work. He was able to prove that Bach's Magnificat directly succeeded Kuhnaus's work and that the use of such Laudes was common in Leipzig's parish churches and beyond.

SKU: BR.BHM-367

ISBN 9783765103674. 9 x 12 inches.

Seek (ricercare) and you will find! The little angel on the cover of the book shows the organist the way to the music he's looking for! In an incredibly time-consuming endeavor, Martin Bieri has compiled all currently available chorale-based organ works, cataloguing about 15,600 works. The bulk of the work is devoted to (chorale) melodies that can be found in the major German-language hymnals. The Ricercare Book offers concise information along with indexes of arrangements, composers, editions and publishers. Nach acht Jahren Laufzeit war es soweit: Ricercare der Sherlock Holmes des Organisten brauchte dringend eine Frischzellenkur d. h. neue Informationen und technische Updates. Das Lifting hat der CD-ROM gut getan. Ricercare saust nunmehr mit neuer Kraft (neuen Informationen) prestissimo durch die weite Datenwelt von uber 20.000 cantus-firmus-gebundenen Orgelwerken und gibt umfassend Auskunft uber Melodien Komponisten Ausgaben Bearbeitungen Verlage u. a. m.
After eight years on the beat it was finally time for Ricercare the Sherlock Holmes of the Organ to get a badly needed makeover i.e. to be supplied with new information and technical updates. The makeover did a world of good to the CD-ROM. Loaded with new info Ricercare now zips along prestissimo through the vast data world of more than 20 000 cantus-firmus-related organ works and provides comprehensive information on melodies composers editions arrangements publishers and much more.


The present edition is based on the music text of the ,,Gesamtausgabe of Robert Schumann's works edited by Clara Schumann together with Johannes Brahms and others between 1879 und 1893. This publication is almost entirely free from arbitrary alterations in the text. A few obvious errors and unjustifiable alterations of the musical text were eliminated after a thorough comparison with the first editions. Die vorliegende Ausgabe folgt dem Notentext der von Clara Schumann in Zusammenarbeit mit Johannes Brahms u. a. zwischen 1879 und 1893 herausgegebenen Gesamtausgabe von Robert Schumanns Werken. Diese Edition ist von willkurlichen Veranderungen des Textes weitgehend frei. Einige offensichtliche Irrtumer und nicht zu rechtfertigende Eingriffe in den Notentext wurden nach Vergleich mit der Erstausgabe und dem Autograph beseitigt. The present edition is based on the music text of the ,,Gesamtausgabe of Robert Schumann's works edited by Clara Schumann together with Johannes Brahms and others between 1879 und 1893. This publication is almost entirely free from arbitrary alterations in the text. A few obvious errors and unjustifiable alterations of the musical text were eliminated after a thorough comparison with the first edition and the autograph.

SKU: HL.49017070

ISBN 9790001149433. UPC: 841886009639. 9.0x12.0x0.105 inches.

The overall oeuvre of Johanna Senfter only includes three free organ works: 'Fantasie und Fuge' Op. 30a (in: Female Composers, ED 9741), the present variations 'Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit' Op. 66 and an organ piece in D minor without opus number. Together with the three cycles of chorale preludes Op. 30b, Op. 70 (Schott ED 9603) and Op. 73, the instrument of the organ occupies a rather small part in her oeuvre. That puts the obvious point of view, namely to see the composer of such a 'choral fantasia' mainly as a student of Reger, into perspective. It is, on the contrary, worth to get to know this major work as a facet of the long life of an artist whose major works still wait to be rediscovered.