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BACH – MASS IN B-MINOR – KARL RICHTER (Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem)

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Johann Sebastian Bach
HOHE MESSE IN H-MOLL

sopran: Gundula Janowitz
alt: Hertha Töpper
tenor: Horst R. Laubenthal
baß: Hermann Prey

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Karl Richter

Stifts-Kirche, Diessen am Ammersee, 1969.

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Credo:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A credo (pronounced [ˈkɾeːdoː], Latin for “I Believe”) is a statement of religious belief, such as the Apostles’ Creed. The term especially refers to the use of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (or less often, the Apostles’ Creed) in the Mass, either as text, Gregorian chant, or other musical settings of the Mass.

History

After the formulation of the Nicene Creed, its initial liturgical use was in baptism, which explains why the text uses the singular “I ….” instead of “we….” The text was gradually incorporated into the liturgies, first in the east and in Spain, and gradually into the north, from the sixth to the ninth century. In 1014 it was accepted by the Church of Rome as a legitimate part of the service. It is recited in the Western Mass directly after the Homily on all Sundays and Solemnities (Tridentine Feasts of the First Class), and in the Eastern Liturgy following the Litany of Supplication on all occasions.

Probably because of its late adoption, and the length of the text (the longest in the Ordinary of the Mass), there are relatively few chant settings of it. What is identified as “Credo I” in the Liber Usualis was apparently widely considered the only authentic Credo, and it is the element of the ordinary that was most strongly associated with a single melody. The Liber Usualis contains only two other settings, designated as “Credo V” and “Credo VI,” which is far fewer than for other settings of the Ordinary.

In musical settings of the Credo, as in the Gloria, the first line is intoned by the celebrant alone (Credo in unum Deum), or by a soloist, while the choir or congregation joins in with the second line. This tradition continued through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and is even followed in more recent settings. In Stravinsky‘s Mass, for example, a soloist intones the first line, which is from the plainchant Credo I. In Mass settings of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic period the Credo line is usually set for whole choir, such as in the Symbolum Nicenum (Nicene Creed) of Bach’s Mass in B minor, where the composer uses plainchant as the theme for a fugue, in the later Masses of Haydn, and the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven.

The melody of Credo I first appears in eleventh-century manuscripts, but it is believed to be much older, and perhaps Greek in origin. It is almost entirely syllabic, probably because of the length of the text, and consists of a great deal of repetition of melodic formulas.

In polyphonic settings of the Mass, the Credo is usually the longest movement, but is usually set more homophonically than other movements, probably because the length of the text demanded a more syllabic approach, as was seen with chant as well. A few composers (notably Heinrich Isaac) have set Credos independently from the rest of the ordinary, presumably to allow their insertion into missae breves or their omission where a said or chanted Credo is the custom.

Text

See also: Nicene Creed

This is the original Latin text used in chants and most modern settings of the Mass:

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipoténtem, factorem cæli et terræ, visibílium ómnium et invisibílium.

Et in unum Dóminum Iesum Christum, Fílium Dei unigénitum, et ex Patre natum, ante ómnia sæcula. Deum de Deo, lumen de lúmine, Deum verum de Deo vero, génitum, non factum, consubstantiálem Patri: per quem ómnia facta sunt. Qui propter nos hómines et propter nostram salútem descéndit de cælis. Et incarnátus est de Spíritu Sancto ex María Vírgine, et homo factus est. Crucifíxus étiam pro nobis sub Póntio Piláto; passus et sepúltus est, et resurréxit tértia die, secúndum Scriptúras, et ascéndit in cælum, sedet ad déxteram Patris. Et íterum ventúrus est cum glória, iudicáre vivos et mórtuos, cuius regni non erit finis.

Et in Spíritum Sanctum, Dóminum et vivificántem: qui ex Patre Filióque procédit. Qui cum Patre et Fílio simul adorátur, et conglorificátur: qui locútus est per Prophétas.

Et unam, sanctam, cathólicam et apostólicam Ecclésiam.

Confíteor unum baptísma in remissiónem peccatorum. Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam ventúri sæculi. Amen.

Settings of alternative texts as a Credo outside the Mass, as a motet, are extremely rare. The first published polyphonic settings of the Symbolum Apostolorum were settings by the French composer Le Brung in 1540, and two further settings by the Spanish composer Fernando de las Infantas in 1578.

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Work: Minuet No.1 in G major (Anna Magdalena Notebook II/1), BWV Anh.114 Anna Magdalena Bach Clavier-Büchlein

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Franz Schubert:   String quartet D.87 in E flat major

I. Allegro moderato 0:00
II. Scherzo. Prestissimo 6:15
III. Adagio 12:00
IV. Allegro 13:40

Amadeus String Quartet (Norbert Brainin – Siegmund Nissel – Peter Schidlof – Martin Lovett)
Studio recording, London, 23-24.V.195
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Franz Schubert:  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 Portrait of Franz Schubert by Franz Eybl (1827)

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. He was an extremely prolific composer, so that when he died at age thirty-one he had composed over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music.

Otto Erich Deutsch, an Austrian musicologist, listed 998 compositions in the first comprehensive catalogue of Schubert’s works. This catalogue was first published in 1951 as Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works in Chronological Order. A revised edition appeared in German in 1978. Later editions of the catalogue contained minor updates.

Publication of Schubert’s compositions started during his lifetime, by opus number. After the composer’s death, posthumous opus numbers continued to be assigned to new publications of his work until 1867 (Op. Post. 173).

There are two attempts to publish everything Schubert has composed in a single edition:

• From 1884 to 1897 Breitkopf & Härtel published twenty-two series of Franz Schubert’s Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe, known as the “Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe” (AGA, the former complete edition). From 1965 Dover Publications started to reprint this edition, and later it was made available at the IMSLP website.
• The Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA), also known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), is published by Bärenreiter (Kassel). It proposes eighty-three volumes, in eight series. Publication of all volumes has been scheduled to conclude in 2016. Plans for this edition began as early as 1963, with the foundation of the International Schubert Society, headquartered at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Texts of Schubert’s vocal music can be published without the music, for instance his Lieder (songs) at LiederNet

The following constitutes a complete listing of Schubert’s known works. It is ordered ascendingly according to Deutsch numbers, and attempts to reflect the most current information with regards to Schubert’s catalogue. For reasons of space, this list is divided into two articles. The first article lists Schubert’s compositions from Deutsch entries D 1 – D 500 (all are dated works). The second article lists Schubert’s compositions from Deutsch entries D 501 – D 965B (also dated works), as well as D 966 – D 998 (undated works). The second article also includes the Appendix (Anhang) to the Deutsch catalogue (works listed as “D Anh.”) and a list of works that have yet to receive a Deutsch number (listed as “D deest”). For the second article, see List of compositions by Franz Schubert (D 501–D 998).
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Amadeus Quartet

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Amadeus Quartet
left to right: Martin Lovett, Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Nissel, Peter Schidlof
Background information
Also known as	Brainin Quartet
Years active	1947–1987
Past members	Norbert Brainin (first violin) Siegmund Nissel (second violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

The Amadeus Quartet was a world famous string quartet founded in 1947 and disbanded in 1987, remarkable for having retained its founding members throughout its long history.

Because of their Jewish origin, the violinists Norbert Brainin (12 March 1923 – 10 April 2005), Siegmund Nissel (3 January 1922 – 21 May 2008) and the viola player Peter Schidlof (9 July 1922 – 16 August 1987) (later violist) were driven out of Vienna after Hitler’s Anschluss of 1938. Brainin and Schidlof met in a British internment camp on the Isle of Man; many Jewish refugees had the misfortune of being confined by the British as “enemy aliens” upon seeking refuge in the UK. Brainin was released after a few months, but Schidlof remained in the camp, where he met Nissel. Finally Schidlof and Nissel were released, and the three of them were able to study with violin teacher Max Rostal, who taught them free of charge. It was through Rostal that they met cellist Martin Lovett, and in 1947 they formed the Brainin Quartet, which was renamed the Amadeus Quartet in 1948.

The group gave its first performance as the Amadeus Quartet at the Wigmore Hall in London on 10 January 1948, underwritten by British composer and conductor Imogen Holst.^[1] On 25 January 1983 the Quartet gave a 35th anniversary concert in the same concert hall with a programme which included Beethoven’s String Quartet in C major, op.59 no. 3 (3rd Rasumovsky Quartet). Touring extensively, the Amadeus performed throughout Europe, Canada, the United States, Japan, and South America. Noted for its smooth, sophisticated style, its seamless ensemble playing, and its sensitive interpretation, the quartet made some 200 recordings, among them the complete quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For concerts as well as recordings of string quintets (Mozart, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner) and string sextets (Brahms) they regularly invited Cecil Aronowitz as second viola and William Pleeth as second cello. Though they emphasized a standard Classical and Romantic repertory, they also performed works by such 20th-century composers as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten who wrote his third quartet expressly for them.

The Amadeus was one of the most celebrated quartets of the 20th century, and its members were awarded numerous honors, including:

• The Order of the British Empire, presented by the Queen.
• Doctorates from the Universities of London, York, and Caracas.
• The highest of all German awards, the Great Cross of Merit.
• The Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences.

The quartet disbanded in 1987 upon the death of the violist Peter Schidlof, who was regarded as irreplaceable by the surviving members. Brainin died on 10 April 2005^[2] and Nissel on 21 May 2008.^[1] Only Lovett survived presently.

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A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

February 6

1626		Huguenot rebels and the French sign the Peace of La Rochelle.
1778		France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
1788		Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
1862		The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign.
1891		The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
1899		The Spanish-American War ends.
1900		President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
1904		Japan’s foreign minister severs all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in negotiations over Manchuria.
1916		Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State’s right to claim indemnity.
1922		The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years.
1926		Mussolini warns Germany to stop agitation in Tyrol.
1929		Germany accepts Kellogg-Briand pact.
1933		Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich begins press censorship.
1936		Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics.
1941		The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians.
1944		Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops.
1945		MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
1963		The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
1964		Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State’s seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
1964		Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.
1965		Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku.
1968		Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France.
1975		President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
1977		Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee.
1982		Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.
Born on February 6
1756		Aaron Burr, 3rd U.S. Vice President.
1895		George Herman “Babe” Ruth, baseball player with the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees and the Boston Braves. The first player to hit 60 home runs in one season.
1911		Ronald Reagan, film actor and 40th U.S. President (1981-1989).
1913		Mary Douglas Leakey, archaeologist and paleoanthropologist.
1932		Francois Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player).
1933		Walter E. Fountroy, politician and civil rights leader.
1940		Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman.
1945		Bob Marley, reggae musician.

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picture of the day: Samuel F.B. Morse and Telegraphy

Samuel F.B. Morse and Telegraphy
American portrait artist Samuel F.B. Morse developed the technology for electrical telegraphy in the 1830s, the first instantaneous form of communication. Using a key to hold open an electrical circuit for longer or shorter periods, an operator would tap out a message in a code composed of dots and dashes. Public demonstrations of the equipment were made in February 1838, but it was necessary for Morse to secure financial backing to build the first telegraph line to carry the signal over distance. In 1843, Congress appropriated the funds for a 37-mile line between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. After underground telegraph wires proved unsuccessful, Morse switched to pole wires and, on May 24, 1844, before a crowd of dignitaries in the chambers of the Supreme Court, Morse tapped out the message, ‘What hath God wrought?’ to an associate waiting in Baltimore.

Image: Library of Congress

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