Eleven Great Cantatas

by Johann Sebastian Bach

Book Overview

Founded in 1850 to collect, edit, and publish all the known works of J. S. Bach, the renowned Bach-Gesellschaft devoted fifty years to its monumental task and produced the most accurate editions of Bach's music. At a much lower cost than the fantastically expensive original publication, this volume reproduces in full vocal and instrumental score eleven cantatas from the reliable Bach-Gesellschaft volumes.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486232689
• ISBN13: 9780486232683
• Release Date: June 1976
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

great cheap score

As another reviewer said, the paper on this score is great. It's your regular fabulously priced Dover edition, taken straight from one a/the? complete editions of Beethoven's works. No measure numbers, and choral parts are in clefs, so that makes looking at the vocal parts a little difficult, but otherwise wonderful, and I'd recommend it.

Must-have for any Bach lover

The eleven cantatas printed here are some of the most-recorded of all Bach's vocal works, and this is a wonderful and inexpensive companion volume for the avid listener who likes to follow the score. A listing of the works included would probably be helpful: 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden; 12, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen; 21, Ich hatte viel Bekummerniss; 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (for soprano solo with trumpet); 56, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (bass solo with oboe); 61, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; 78, Jesu, der Du meine Seele; 80, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (including the trumpet parts added by a different hand); 82, Ich habe genug (another bass solo with oboe obbligato); 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (a very early and beautiful cantata, with two solo recorders); and 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme.