Helmuth Rilling, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart - Johann Sebastian Bach: Schemelli-Liederbuch (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 436 Mb | Total time: 50:17+50:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CBS Records | # CBS M2K 38972 | Recorded: 1983
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 436 Mb | Total time: 50:17+50:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CBS Records | # CBS M2K 38972 | Recorded: 1983
It is an album devoted to excerpts from the Schemelli-Liederbuch. This song book was a mammoth collection of hymns or chorales put together by Georg Christian Schemelli, a choirmaster in Zeitz, Germany, in the first half of the 18th century. (His son studied with Bach.) For the hymnal, Bach contributed figured basses (to guide in the harmonization by the performer) for 69 chorale melodies. He also was responsible for a few melodies themselves and some complete harmonizations.