ExclusiveBach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 - Part 1

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 - Part 1. This beautiful piece was played by The German Bach Soloists. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

The Magnificat in D is a setting of the Magnificat by J.S. Bach, who first composed a version in E flat major in 1723 (catalogued as BWV 243a) and then revised it in D major in 1733 (catalogued as BWV 243). The Latin text is the Canticle of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as told in the Gospel of Luke. It is scored for five soloists, soprano I/II, alto, tenor, bass, a five-part choir, three trumpets, timpani, flauto traverso, two oboes (also oboe d'amore), two violins, viola and basso continuo. It is one of the few works that Bach set for five-part choir, along with the Kyrie and Gloria, which he later expanded to form the Mass in B Minor and Jesu, meine Freude (Jesu, my joy).

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