Baerenreiter Verlag Musical Church Service (Advent and Christmas Cantatas) - Telemann/Fock/Poetzsch - Medium Voice/Solo Instrument/Basso Continuo - Score/Parts

Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann
Editors: Gustav Fock, Ute Poetzsch
Format: Score and Parts Set, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Medium voice, Melodic instrument, Basso continuo

• Interesting solo cantatas for use in church services
• Urtext from the Telemann Edition
• Separate parts for instrument and continuo

When Telemann issued his first annual cycle of printed cantatas, Der Harmonische Gottesdienst (Hamburg, 1725-6), he was already one of the leading cantata composers of his time. Thanks to their brevity and their simple scoring, the 72 solo cantatas have remained very popular to the present day.

These editions (BA 5891 through to BA 5896) divide the annual cycle into cantatas for high voice and cantatas for medium voice. Each series spreads the works over three volumes accompanied by separate parts for solo instrument and continuo. The cantatas follow the order of the liturgical year, beginning with the Christmas season and continuing with Easter and Trinity.

Being practically minded, Telemann arranged the ambitus of the vocal parts so that the cantatas for medium voice are 'also suitable for an ordinary alto or bass'. Similarly, the solo instruments are suitable for violin, oboe, recorder or flute.

Contents:

• Erster Advent: Erwachet zum Kriegen (Violine)
• Dritter Advent: Vor des lichten Tages schein (Querflote)
• Erster Weihnachtstag: Erquickendes Wunder der ewigen Gnade (Violine)
• Zweiter Weihnachtstag: Jauchzet, frohlocket, der Himmel ist offen (Violine)
• Neujahr: Halt ein mit deinem Wetterstrahle (Violine)
• Heilige drei Konige: Ihr Volker, hort (Querflote)
• Zweiter Sonntag nach Heilige drei Konige: ist Widerwartigkeit den frommen eigen (Violine)
• Maria Reinigung: Erscheine, Gott, in deinem Tempel (Querflote)
• Funfter Sonntag nach Heilige drei Konige: Liebe, die vom Himmel stammet (Violine)
• Sechster Sonntag nach Heilige drei Konige: Was ist das Herz? (Violine)