Pastoral Symphony, from Christmas Oratorio, Part II (BWV 248)
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
Product code:
9780193549739
Publisher: OUP Oxford
£5.75
Description
The ‘Pastoral Symphony’, which opens Part II of the Christmas Oratorio, sets the scene for the Evangelist’s recitative which follows: ‘Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend (And there were, in the same country, shepherds abiding in the fields)’. Here transcribed for solo organ, this was originally published in Bach Transcriptions for Organ.
Description
The ‘Pastoral Symphony’, which opens Part II of the Christmas Oratorio, sets the scene for the Evangelist’s recitative which follows: ‘Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend (And there were, in the same country, shepherds abiding in the fields)’. Here transcribed for solo organ, this was originally published in Bach Transcriptions for Organ.
