Felix Mendelssohn can claim the credit of having ushered in the Bach-Renaissance with his arrangement and performance of the ?St Matthew Passion?. It was revived for the first time in the Berlin Singakademie on 11 March 1829, one hundred years after its premiere in Leipzig?s Thomaskirche. A second arrangement was performed in Leipzig in 1841. Originally only available on hire as part of the editi…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Arranger's Note - An edition of music, like anything else, is a product of its own time. During the 1980s, guitarists of my generation were starting to become aware of stylistic concerns in the interpretation ofearly music. There was a movement towards stylistic authenticity, an attempt to re-discover the original intentions of early composers and recreate the aesthetic …

by Baroque Composers. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Sixteen of Bach’s transcriptions for solo keyboard instruments (Piano and Harpsichord) of concertos for Violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi, Telemann and others. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann./ Répertoire / Clavier et Piano

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did not leave us a definitive version either in print or fair copy. The sources give evidence of four different versions used at four performances - 1724, 1725, around 1730 and d…

Kantate Zum Ratswechsel In Leipzig. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's first cantata for the election of the Leipzig town council, composed in August 1723, is one of his most splendidly scored work from his Leipzig period. The choice of opening, with the 'representative' form of a French overture, was suited to a festive orchestral scoring. Two choral movements frame a middle section which consists…

This volume reproduces all 25 of Bach's complete sets of preludes and fugues (i.e. compositions written as pairs), from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Organists and music lovers can enjoy Bach's beautiful compositions in one convenient edition ? ideal for reading, study, and performance. Content :
Prelude and Fugue, C Major (BWV 531. BG XV, 81)
Prelude and Fugue, D Major…

Par CURNOW JAMES. A wonderful teaching piece and the ideal young band festival work, BACH VARIANTS (six melodic variations on the Bach chorale AWAKE MY HEART AND SING) should be a staple of every young band library. Chorale style playing does so much for the young band's intonation, tone quality and phrasing. Including this one in your next festival program is certain to reap great rewards by honi…

Transcrit et adapté pour flûte et piano, par Louis Moyse, progressive pour que flûtistes débutant. Inclut certaines oeuvres remarquables par les grands maîtres y compris : Bach, Haendel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann. / Flûte Traversière / Partition

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. This enchanting melody is from the fourth movement of Bach’s Cantata 140 which was composed in 1731 using the parable of the wise and foolish virgins as the text. The work is beautiful in its simplicity with only three melodic lines, demonstrating Bach’s counterpoint at its best. For greatest effect it is suggested that the trumpets and t…

Reconstructed from BWV 1056. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. This violin concerto in G minor has not come down to us in the form presented here. It has been reconstructed from a lost violin concerto that survives solely in Bach's arrangement for harpsichord, namely, as the Harpsichord Concerto in F minor (BWV 1056). The reconstruction is based on a meticulous evaluation of those autograph harpsichord c…