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Orchestra SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo [3 trumpets, timpani] - Grade 3 SKU: CA.3321511 Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal; Carus sheet music series: Vocal scores XL. Violin 1. Innovative practice aids, Sacred vocal music, Magnificats, Advent, Christmas, Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Hymns in praise of the Virgin Mary, Daily hours. Single Part, Violin 1. Composed 1749. BR-CPEB E 4 (Wq 215). 32 pages. Duration 42 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 33.215/11. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3321511). ISBN 9790007051679. Language: Latin.C. P. E. Bach's nine-movement Magnificat (1749), the first great vocal work from his Berlin years, is among the most magnificent sounding, in which the solo vocal parts are also among the most ambitious settings of the "Hymn to the Virgin Mary" (Luke 1). The work fulfills all the criteria required for a larger sacred composition: grandeur, dignity, polyphonic and concertante choral movements, sensitive ("empfindsam") and expressive arias, a long concluding double fugue. This richly scored Magnificat (with 3 trumpets and timp. ad. lib.), which is almost one hour in duration, would be well suited, for example, as the central work on every Christmas or pre-Christmas concert programme. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3321500.

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