The opening chorus of the cantata "Schauet doch und sehet" (Look ye then and see now) is one of those movements by Bach which are much better known in their later guise: the first part of it became the "Qui tollis" of the Mass in B minor. But this movement is not the only high point of the cantata from Bach’s earliest Leipzig period. Both the arias are also unusual: a bass aria depicting God’s anger dramatically as a thundering storm, with strings and slide trumpet, which gives the movement a very special colour through its unexpected notes beyond the instrument’s natural series, and an alto aria with two recorders, accompanied by just two oboi da caccia in unison, which take the role of the continuo as "little basset instruments". Music almost not of this world!
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, english translationhtml file, singing text, english translation (Sample)1 CoroLook ye then and see now,
2 Recitativo (Tenore)
if there be a sorrow like my pain
which hath stricken me. For the Lord did sorely torment my soul,
the day He showed His terrible wrath.Lament and wail thou ruined town of God,
thy tumbled stones and heaps of ashes!
Let tears pour streaming through thy lashes,
thou must now stand aghast at the irreparable loss
of God’s own precious Son,
a loss that thou must bear for thine own sin.
Thou knowest like Gomorrah, castigation
if not annihilation.
'Tis better to be leveled to the ground
than that thou hear’st the foes
of Christ their slander sound.
Christ’s tears thou heedest not at all;
so mark the waves of wrath thou did inherit,
the wrath that tou thyself doth merit,...
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, originalhtml file, singing text, original (Sample)1 Coro
Schauet doch und sehet,
2 Recitativo (Tenore)
ob irgendein Schmerz sei wie mein Schmerz,
der mich troffen hat.
Denn der Herr hat mich voll Jammers gemacht
am Tage seines grimmigen Zorns.So klage, du zustörte Gottesstadt,
du armer Stein und Aschenhaufen!
Lass ganze Bäche Tränen laufen,
weil dich betroffen hat
ein unersetzlicher Verlust
der allerhöchsten Huld,
so du entbehren musst durch deine Schuld.
Du wurdest wie Gomorra zugerichtet,
wiewohl nicht gar vernichtet.
O besser wärest du in Grund verstört,
als dass man Christi Feind
jetzt in dir lästern hört.
Du achtest Jesu Tränen nicht,...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
| 1685-1750Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most important composers of Western music history. He came from a widely ramified musical dynasty, which produced numerous musicians and organists in the Thuringian-Saxon area.
Bach vocal
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Paul Horn
| 1922-2016Paul Horn war ein deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler. Er studierte Kirchenmusik und Orgel an der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule Esslingen am Neckar bei Hans-Arnold Metzger und Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann als Kantor an der Evangelischen Michaelskirche in Stuttgart-Degerloch. 1954 wurde er Kantor an der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg, eine Position, die er bis zu seiner Pensionierung innehatte. Als Musikwissenschaftler arbeitete Horn bis ins hohe Alter eng mit Carus zusammen. So stammen zahlreiche Carus-Klavierauszüge aus seiner Feder. Personal details
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Uwe Wolf
| 1961As a musicologist, Dr. Uwe Wolf is particularly at home in the 17th and 18th centuries. The focus of his work ranges from the time of Monteverdi and Schütz to Bach and the generation of Bach's sons and pupils through to Viennese Classicism. He has been head of the editorial department at Carus-Verlag since October 2011. Prior to this, he worked in Bach research for over 20 years. Personal details
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Paul Horn
| 1922-2016Paul Horn war ein deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler. Er studierte Kirchenmusik und Orgel an der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule Esslingen am Neckar bei Hans-Arnold Metzger und Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann als Kantor an der Evangelischen Michaelskirche in Stuttgart-Degerloch. 1954 wurde er Kantor an der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg, eine Position, die er bis zu seiner Pensionierung innehatte. Als Musikwissenschaftler arbeitete Horn bis ins hohe Alter eng mit Carus zusammen. So stammen zahlreiche Carus-Klavierauszüge aus seiner Feder. Personal details
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