Composed for an Easter Sunday performance in 1715 during Bach's tenure as court composer at Weimar, this cantata has long been a favorite among the more than 250 he wrote. Unabridged electronically enhanced reprint of the vocal score first issued by C. F. Peters in ca. 1880.
1. Sonata
2. Coro: Die Himmel lacht, die Erde jubilieret
3. Recitativo: Erwunschter Tag Sei, Seele, wieder froh
4. Aria: Furst des Lebens, starker Streiter
5. Recitativo: So stehe denn, du Gott ergebne Seele
6. Aria: Adam muss in uns verwesen
7. Recitativo: Weil denn das Haupt sein Glied,...

An insteresting case of self-borrowing. Bach took music from this work for his own Mass in B-minor (BWV 191/1 corresponds to the Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191/2 to the Domine Deus, BWV 191/3 to the Cum sancto spiritu). This unusual cantata, the only one with a Latin text, may have been written to celebrate the Peace of Dresden (which ended the 2nd Silesian war) and first performed on Christmas day, 1745. This vocal score is a reissue of the one which was originally published to coincide with Bach Gessellschaft edition. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the...

Mahler's arrangement of four Bach pieces - two each from the baroque master's Orchestral Suites Nos. 3 and 4 (BWV 1067, 1068) were prepared specially for a concert of the New York Philharmonic he conducted on November 10, 1909. Mahler's arrangement is quite unusual for its era and does not significantly depart from Bach's original in the forces required. Mahler's use of the harpsichord (he played the part himself at the premiere) is quite personal - adding the instrument to the orchestra a color more than the conventional continuo accompaniment function played in Bach's era. Mahler's...

Bach composed the first version of this piece in 1723 using the key of E-flat major for the Christmas Vespers in Leipzig which contained several Christmas texts. Over the years he removed the Christmas-specific texts to make it suitable for year-round performance, and transposied it to D major, providing better sonority for the three trumpets, which is the standard version of the work encountered today. The Magnificat is divided into twelve parts which can be grouped into three movements, each beginning with an aria and completed by the choir. The four movements from the original version have...

The first book in Johann Sebastian Bach's famous and most influential "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Here is what the title page first published in English had to say about this masterful work: "The Well-Tempered Clavier, or Preludes and Fugues through all tones and semitones, relating to the major third, that is, Ut Re Mi, as well as those related to the minor third, that is, Re Mi Fa. Compiled and prepared for the benefit and practice of young musicians desirous of learning, as well as for the entertainment of those already versed in this particular study, by Johann Sebastian Bach, Anno 1722"...

The second book in Johann Sebastian Bach's famous and most influential "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Here is what the title page first published in English had to say about this masterful work: "The Well-Tempered Clavier, or Preludes and Fugues through all tones and semitones, relating to the major third, that is, Ut Re Mi, as well as those related to the minor third, that is, Re Mi Fa. Compiled and prepared for the benefit and practice of young musicians desirous of learning, as well as for the entertainment of those already versed in this particular study, by Johann Sebastian Bach, Anno...

Books 1 and 2 containing the complete 48 preludes and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach's famous and most influential "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Here is what the title page first published in English had to say about this masterful work: "The Well-Tempered Clavier, or Preludes and Fugues through all tones and semitones, relating to the major third, that is, Ut Re Mi, as well as those related to the minor third, that is, Re Mi Fa. Compiled and prepared for the benefit and practice of young musicians desirous of learning, as well as for the entertainment of those already versed in this...