Sacred Odes and Songs (Gellert) AL27907 Prelude in E minor BWV

Prelude in E minor BWV 555

many manuscripts reflect the previous popularity and wide circulation of this music

• Alternately a second cello part allows duo playing with the teacher during lessons

This Mass has been referred to as the most “Mozartian” of all his masses

The surviving sources enable us to recognize how intensively and how long he worked on the composition in order to give what he felt was adequate expression to the text

Sacred Odes and Songs (Gellert) AL27907 Prelude in E minor BWVFor the last twenty years of his life Carl Phillipp Emanuel held the important position for sacred music in Hamburg as Kantor and Music Director of the city's main churches. We owe to these years in Hamburg such significant, indeed epochal works as the double choir Heilig and the great oratorios Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu and Die Israeliten in der Wste. Despite having borrowed some chorales and turbae from his father, the St. Matthew