Product Description
Magic and Majestic: Experience Johann Sebastian Bach as played by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. Discover the special beauty and passion in 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 - 1. (Sonatina). Let this amazing piece open your mind and free your soul and senses to another dimension of music. For students, amateurs and professional pianists, the music sheet of this remarkable recording composed by Bach, as played by Víkingur Ólafsson is now available!
This solo piano arrangement was based on Víkingur Ólafsson four-hand piano version of the recording. It is very close to the original four-hand recording, but here we present you with a possibility for you to play this beautiful Bach sonata alone, according to the interpretation of Ólafsson, originally recorded as a piano duet with four hands. Get yours today and experience the magic for yourself.
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Intermediate.
Format: Concert, 9 x 12 inches.
4 pages.
PLUS: Engraved and Published with Urtext Kapellmeister Music Fonts.
Notes
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (God's time is the very best time),BWV 106, also known as Actus tragicus, is an early sacred cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Mühlhausen, intended for a funeral.
The earliest source for the composition is a copied manuscript dated 1768, therefore the date of the composition is not certain. Research leads to a funeral of a former mayor of Mühlhausen on 16 September 1708. The text is a carefully compiled juxtaposition of biblical texts, three quotations from the Old Testament and four from the New Testament, combined with funeral hymns, of which two are sung and one is quoted instrumentally, and some additions by an anonymous author. Bach scored the work for four vocal parts and a small ensemble of Baroque instruments, two recorders, two violas da gamba and continuo. The work is opened by an instrumental Sonatina, followed by through-composed sections which have been assigned to four movements. The structure is symmetrical around a turning point, when the lower voices, who contemplate the Old Covenant, are overcome by a soprano calling for Jesus.
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