Organ Chorales from the Rudorff Collection
Bach, Johann Sebastian
J S Bach Organ Chorales from the Rudorff Collection
During the Bach tricentennial celebrations in 1985, not only were the Neumeister Collection at Yale University (New Haven, USA) and the Rinck Collection presented to the public, but attention was also given to a previously little-known manuscript from the Rudorff Collection, preserved in the Music Library of the City of Leipzig.
The present first performing edition included the entire contents of the manuscript, that is, the seven chorales from the corpus of autograph manuscripts assembled in Leipzig by the music teacher and composer Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff.
In their compositional texture and style these chorale settings are comparable to the Neumeister Chorales and shed valuable light on the composer’s early artistic development. A must for connoisseurs and amateurs of Bach’s organ music.
Contents
- Herzlich tut mich verlangen (Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder) BWV Anh II 47 / Anh III 172 (Johann Peter Kellner) [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
- Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott ( 2nd setting) [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
- Es spricht der Unweisen Mund [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
- Der Tag der ist so freudenreich (Ein Kindelein so löbelich) [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
- Ach, was istdoch unser Leben BWV 743 (Variation) (2nd setting) [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
- Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen (with 3 Variations [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
- Appendix: Es spricht der Unweisen Mund (Transposition to G major, key of the new Evangelischen Gesangbuches) [Bach, Johann Sebastian]