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Part 3: Year 2003
Spanish Translations of the Cantatas
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Translations – Major Updates
(March 21, 2003)
On the occasion of J.S. Bach's 318th Birthday, I have a present for the community of his lovers:
a. Today I have finished adding to the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) all the French translations of the Sacred Cantatas, made by Jean-Pierre Grivois in Note to Note format.
b. I have also finished translating all the Sacred Cantatas into Hebrew.
c. I have also added Index Pages by BWV Number, Title and Event to all the translations hosted in the BCW.
You can find them all through the page: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexTexts.htm
Bach Cantatas Website – Temporary unavailability
(April, 5, 2003)
Right now I am transferring the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) from its current host to a new one. The reason for the change is simple: the new host has much more space for a much lower cost. The extra space means better performance and also the option to expand the BCW with more material, especially music examples.
I left the domain name without change, means: http://www.bach-cantatas.com
and informed the registrar about the change of the host. Although I left both the old host and the new host active, the change might cause temporary unavaiof the BCW. Over the next few days, DNS servers all across the Internet will update themselves with the new host of the BCW. Once that happens, you will be able to access the BCW without any problem. You do not have to change anything in your bookmarks or links which point to the BCW. The only thing you need is some patience.
You are able to identify that you are working with the BCW in its new host by looking at the lower right corner of the Home Page. If you find there NEW SERVER, it means that you are looking at the BCW in its new host.
If after April 7, 2003 you still have problem accessing the BCW or any of its about 3,600 pages and 8,000 pictures, please inform me right away!
Thanks for your patience and enjoy,
Bach Cantatas Website – Scores
(April 7, 2003)
The transferring of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) to its new host server has been finished. As I informed you in a previous post, you do not have to change anything. Just use the familiar bookmarks and links and they will direct you to the BCW at its new home. You will be able to identify that you are working with the new host by looking at the lower right corner of the Home Page: http://www.bach-cantatas.com
where it is written in bold letters NEW SERVER. If you still have any problem accessing the BCW or any of its many pages, please inform me right away.
The new host server means better performance and much more space. The first step I did after finishing transferring all the pages from the 'old' host and updating the relevant pages with the last correspondence, was uploading the PDF files of the cantata scores. These files, prepared by Yu Chao, were hosted on a Chinese server (actually they are still there). This server has had problems of unavailability, missing pages, etc. Yu suggested to me in his generosity to upload the PDF files to the BCW, but until I moved the BCW to the new server, this was not possible. Now you have them all in the BCW.
Look at the page: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexScores.htm
and continue from there. In due time I intend also updating the cantata pages accordingly.
If you have ideas for improvements, corrections, etc., please let me know.
Enjoy and thank you all,
Text and translations of chorales
(April 26, 2003
Notes and commentaries on the cantatas often refer to chorales (German hymns) used as the basis for the text of some of the cantatas. It is not always easy to find complete versions of these texts and if there are English translations they are designed to be sung and so are often inaccurate.
With Aryeh's kind help I have therefore begun to add to the website texts and translations of the chorales used as the basis for some cantatas and also the Latin hymns on which some chorales are based. These can be found at:
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexTexts-Chorales-Title.htm
For future cantatas chosen for the weekly discussion my intention will be to translate both the cantata text and , where appropriate, the chorale . Corrections and suggestions for improvements are very welcome and much appreciated . To avoid filling the list with non-musical matters, it would be better to do this offlist ( brorimbach@aol.com )
Francis Browne
Profiles of Members of the BCML & BRML
(May 5, 2003)
I have been thinking for quite some time of an idea, when Kirk sent the message below earlier today:
"I sometimes wish we could have a gallery of photos of the frequent posters - > it makes a difference when you know what the person you write to looks like. As it is, everyone looks like just plain lines of text..."
What do you think of the idea of putting a page (or pages) in the Bach Cantatas Website dedicated to the members of the BCML and the BRML. For each member the following information will be presented: photo, name, occupation, country, member of the Bach List since.
Some of us are members of at list one of the Bach Lists for more than three years now; others are relatively newcomers, and both lists are still growing. We are corresponding on a daily basis and we know almost nothing on each other. So, such a page (pages) will allow us to have better acquaintance with each other. I know that this is uncommon idea among mailing lists, but I believe that the BCML and the BRML are special and unique phenomenon anyhow.
As a trial, I put up a page with profiles of two members:
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Topics/Members-Profiles.htm
I would like all the members of both lists, both contributors and lurkers, to appear in this page(s). But it is up to each member to decide whether he/she wants to participate. If you like the idea, please send me (to my personal e-mail address) the relevant details and a photo (jpg/jpeg format, 180x235 pixels).
New Section in the Bach Cantatas Website - Librettists & Hymn-Writers
(May 27, 2003)
I believe that most members of the BCML/BRML are already aware of the connection between text and music in Bach's vocal works. After finishing translating all the Bach Cantatas into Hebrew, I thought that it is about the time to pay attention to those hidden figures, the poets who supplied the hymns and the libretti to which Bach set his sublime music.
I have been looking in vain for some information about the most popular of them all, the guy whose name appear as the librettist of most of Bach Cantatas, the legendary Mr. Anon, but could not find anything meaningful. Therefore I decided to skip him, hoping that nobody will be angry with me of dismissing this important figure.
But I listed all the others I had found. In the page:
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexLib.htm
you can find an index where the poets are listed alphabetically.
In the second column there are three options:
a. The title Librettist/Hymn-Writer in bold letters: means that there is a biography of this poet in the BCW. Pressing the link of his name will lead you to this biography.
b. The title Librettist/Hymn-Writer in regular (non-bold) letters: means that only birth and death years are available, but not a biography. Pressing the link of his name will lead you to these details.
c. Nothing appears in this column: means that no information is available (yet) [in this case, pressing the link of the poet's name will give you an error message].
In the third column there is a list of all Bach's vocal works in which a text by the poet has been used. A question mark means that the authorship is doubtful.
The page of each biography includes:
a. Date and place of Birth/Death.
b. Body of the biography.
c. List of Bach's works in which the text of the poet has been used.
d. List of chorales by this poet (only if they are already included in the BCW). Francis Browne contributes the text & English translation of the chorales.
e. Links to other sites.
In time I intend adding links to these biographies from the headers of each cantata page (the orange part). In that way you will be able to learn something about the poet, as well as finding easily in which other Bach's works his/her text was used.
I found about 160 poets, the biographies of 52 of them are already included in the BCW. Since many of the BCML/BRML members are Christians, it is most likely that they have access to resources that are not at my disposal. I would appreciate any help you can give me in building this section of the BCW, by adding missing biographies, expanding existing ones, adding pictures of the poets, correcting details, etc.
If you are willing to contribute to this section of the BCW, or to any other of its parts, please send it to my personal e-mail address: oron-a@inter.net.il
(and not through the BCML/BRML).
BGA Scores – a Major Addition to the Bach Cantatas Website
(July 2, 2003)
I have just finished uploading all the scores of Bach’s vocal works BWV 1-523 from the BGA Edition (BacGesamtausgabe, the first complete edition of J.S. Bach works, published in Leipzig 1851-1899) into the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW). You have now available online the complete and full scores of Bach’s vocal works (Cantatas, Motets, Masses, Passions, Magnificat, Chorales, Lieder, etc), including even works, which due later research have been proved to being composed not by J.S. Bach. Please notice that this is the BGA (or BG) Edition, the copyright on which has expired. That also means that the latter additions and updates to the BWV included in the NBA Edition are missing. Anyhow, AFAIK, the NBA is not available in digitized form and is still protected by copyright. It has been a painstaking job extracting the files for each vocal work from the BGA volumes. I hope I did it right, but if you find any mistake, please inform me.
You can find them all through the following page of the Bach Cantatas Website:
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexScores.htm
To view or print the PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) files, please use Adobe Acrobat Reader.
In the same page you have also links to the reduced Vocal & Piano Scores of the Sacred Cantatas BWV 1-199. Please notice that the links in the Cantata pages (the orange area at the header of each Cantata page) have not yet been updated to include links to the new PDF files of the scores. I need some time to accomplish this task, but eventually it will be done.
The files are extracted from the complete volumes of the edition by Peters, Leipzig, available in a bound form at Leipzig Municipal Library. The complete BGA Edition in digitalized form with complete texts, musical notes, contents and facsimiles of about 16,800 pages, can be bought from: www.bachwerke.de
Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works according to Performance Dates
(August 11, 2003)
Following requests from members of the Bach Lists and occasional visitors at the Bach Cantatas Website, I added a page which lists all Bach's Vocal Works (Cantatas, Oratorios, Motets, Passions, etc.) according to their performance date by J.S. Bach. That means that works which were performed by Bach several times have duplicate entries in the list.
See: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Date.htm
From the line of each work there is a link to its page at the Bach Cantatas
Website.
There are links to this page from the following pages:
Recordings & Discussions of Cantatas: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexBWV.htm
Recordings & Discussions of Other Vocal Works: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexVocal.htm
Lutheran Church Year: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lutheran.htm
I hope you will find the list useful.
If you find any inaccuracies or missing data in this page, do not hesitate to inform me right away.
Table of Cantata Recordings by Major Conductors
(August 16, 2003):
I updated and expanded the Table of Cantata Recordings by Major Conductors:
a. The Table includes now also Cantata Recordings by Philippe Herreweghe, John Eliot Gardiner, Fritz Werner and the Berlin/Leipzig Classics Series (Ramin, Kurt Thomas, Mauersberger, Rotzsch, Schreier and Guttler).
b. The table was updated to include the latest releases by Herreweghe, Koopman, Suzuki, etc.
For quick reference the table is arranged by BWV Number and is split into 5 parts:
Cantatas BWV 1-50: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Recordings-Table.htm
Cantatas BWV 51-100: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Recordings-Table2.htm
Cantatas BWV 101-150: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Recordings-Table3.htm
Cantatas BWV 151-200: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Recordings-Table4.htm
Cantatas BWV 201-224: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Recordings-Table5.htm
There is a link to this Table from the page of Performers - Recordings & Discussions: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexPerformers.htm
and from many other pages of the Bach Cantatas Website.
Italian, Russian & Japanese (and more) Translations needed
(August 26, 2003):
You know that the main goal of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) is to help spreading the J.S. Bach's message worldwide. One of the tools making it possible are translations of his vocal works, especially the cantatas, available online in as many languages as possible.
The BCW includes links to every translation of Bach's vocal works I have managed to find over the web. Furthermore, several good people have contributed (and still continue doing so) translations to various languages hosted at the BCW. The list of contributors includes, among others: Francis Browne and Paul Farseth (English); Jean-Pierre Grivois (French); Rodrigo Maffei Libonati (Portuguese); Jose Pajares Box, Francisco Lopez Hernandez and Lorenzo Conejo (Spanish); Dick Wursten (Dutch), Galia Regev, Irit Schoenhorn and Aryeh Oron (Hebrew). The gate to the Original German (sometimes Latin) Texts and their Translations is located at the page: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexTexts.htm
Some important languages, such as Italian, Russian and Japanese, are missing. I would appreciate any volunteer who wants to contribute translations to these and to any other language. I shall be happy to host them all at the BCW.
Bach Vocal Concerts Mailing List
(August 31, 2003)
I opened a new mailing list, named BachVocalConcerts Mailing List [Bach-VCML]. The only goal of the Bach-VCML is exchanging information about schedule of concerts in which Bach's Vocal works are performed.
The Schedule of Concerts appears in the following page of the Bach Cantatas Website: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Concert.htm
There is a link to this page from the Home Page of the Bach Cantatas Website: http://www.bach-cantatas.com
(lower right corner)
If you have information about planned concerts of Bach's Vocal Works not listed in this page, please subscribe to Bach-VCML by sending the message: Bach-VCML-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
After the subscription, please post a message to Bach-VCML with the following details (for each concert):
- Date
- Location
- Works (BWV Numbers)
- Performers
- Website (if applicable to the concert)
- Source of information
Schedule of Concerts of Bach’s vocal works
(September 20, 2003)
During the last three weeks I have a compiled a worldwide Schedule of Concerts of Bach’s vocal works. Due the enormous number of concerts, the Schedule is divided into three lists:
Year 2003: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Concert-2003.htm
Year 2004: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Concert-2004.htm
Year 2005: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Concert-2005.htm
The lists are arranged (more or less) by date, country, (state), city, venue.
The lists have been compiled from various websites, most of them through extensive research and some with the help of members of the Bach-VCML, a special mailing list whose only goal is exchanging information about scheduled concerts of Bach's vocal works. I also wrote to every website, from which the information was collected, asking for confirmation of the details. Many of them answered me and helped making the lists even more complete and accur.
About 1,000 concerts are already listed. Nevertheless, I am quite sure that many more have slipped away, either because I have failed to find them or because the performers do not have a website.
I would appreciate any help, which will make the lists even more comprehensive.
Additions/changes/corrections to the schedule of concerts
If you have information about planned concerts of Bach’s Vocal Works not listed in these pages, or if you have any correction, change, or addition to the list of concerts, please subscribe to BachVocalConcerts Mailing List [Bach-VCML]:
mailto:Bach-VCML-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
and post the information.
Another option is posting a message directly to me: oron-a@inter.net.il
In your message please include the following details for each concert:
1. Date
2. Location (venue, town, state/region, country)
3. Works (BWV Numbers)
4. Performers (at least conductor, vocal/choral & instrumental ensembles)
5. Website (if applicable to the concert)
6. Source of information
MIDI files uploaded into the Bach Cantatas Website
(October 3, 2003)
With a great assistance from Will G. Stoner, a new member of the BCML, and permission from the authors, I uploaded into the Bach Cantatas Website about 250 MIDI files of various movements from Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works.
The works are: BWV 1-10, BWV 18, BWV 30, BWV 36, BWV 40-49, BWV 54, BWV 58, BWV 60, BWV 65, BWV 68, BWV 75-76, BWV 78, BWV 80, BWV 103, BWV 106, BWV 110, BWV 123, BWV 128, BWV 135-136, BWV 144, BWV 147, BWV 155-156, BWV 161, BWV 166, BWV 172, BWV 175-176, BWV 192, BWV 198, BWV 206-207, BWV 227, BWV 232, BWV 244, BWV 245, BWV 248, BWV 508-515
These files come from the following sources:
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities: http://www.ccarh.org/
Yoshiko Fujimoto MIDI page: http://bwv.at.infoseek.co.jp/midi-list.html
J.S. Bach – MIDI Orgel: http://homepage.mac.com/ryomasuda/JSBach/
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