Coro SATB - Level 3
SKU: CA.411276
Composed by Dimitri
Stepanowitsch
Bortniansky. Edited by
Marika Kuzma. Carus
digital: Extra digital
products. Full Score. 12
pages. Duration 10
minutes. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.411276).
ISBN 9790007253639.
Key: C minor. Church
Slavonic/German.
Di
mitri Stepanowitsch
Bortniansky (1751-1825)
seems to have composed
the majority of his
liturgical works and most
of his Sacred Concertos
in the 1780s and 1790s,
before he was appointed
Kapellmeister to the
court ensemble in St.
Petersburg. Heidi Kirmsse
has added a German
singing text to the five
most popular pieces from
the complete volume (CV
4.111). The festive
Concerto no. 6 Ehre sei
Gott in der Hohe is for
Christmas, and no. 9 Heut
ist der Tag, den Gott,
der Herr, gemacht for
Easter. No. 15 Lasst uns
singen, kommt herbei is
in the major key and is a
very effective piece.
Tchaikovsky edited
Bortniansky's sacred
works and is said to have
particularly admired no.
32 O lass mich, Herr,
mein Gott, erkennen mein
Ziel. Bortniansky himself
probably best liked no.
33 Sag, meine Seele,
warum verzagest du? The
work was sung at his
funeral.
*addition
to the choral repertoire
with works from the
Orthodox liturgy/ Eastern
Europe
*includes the
original Church Slavonic
text underlaid (in
transliteration).
*eff
ective solo/tutti
alternations.