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Soli,GCh,Orch - score and parts incl. piano reduction

Soli,GCh,Orch 18'

Soli,GCh,Orch 38'

Instrumentation: alto solo, campanella (2 bells), strings and b.c.

for soli (STB), mixed choir, bassoon obl. and orchestra

Soli,GCh,Orch 27'

Soli,GCh,Orch 25'

Orchestration: oboe, strings and b.c.

Soli,GCh,Orch 17'

Soli,GCh,Orch 29'

T,B,GCh,Orch 18'

A,T,GCh,Orch 27'

Soli,GCh,Orch 27'

Urtext of both versions The new edition of BWV 118 presents the work in the two different instrumental settings secured by the autograph scores: the earlier version with brass only and the later with...

Soli,GCh,Orch 20'

B,GCh,Orch 12'

Orchestration: 1 oboe strings and b.c.

Soli,GCh,Orch 18'

Step by step, Breig reassembles the entire introductory sentence.

Diethard Hellmann based his careful reconstruction on stylistic comparisons with other Bach scores.

Soli,GCh,Orch 75'

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.