Two Asperges me, WAB 3
Two Asperges me | |
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Asperges me | |
Language | Latin |
Composed | 1844/1845 Kronstorf : |
Dedication | Asperges |
Published | 1932 Regensburg : |
Vocal | SATB choir |
Instrumental | Organ |
The two Asperges me (Thou wilt sprinkle me),
.History
In 1844/1845, Bruckner composed these two settings of Aperges me during his stay in Kronstorf.[1] They were presumably performed at that time.[2]
The manuscripts are stored in the
Music
During his stay in
Asperges me, WAB 3.1
The work, a setting of 58 bars in Aeolian mode, was composed for the Asperges of Septuagesima Sunday till the 4th Sunday of Lent.[1]
The score is in three parts. Part 1 (19 bars), which begins with "Domine, hysopo" and ends with "dealbabor", is in
Asperges me, WAB 3.2
The work, a setting of 41 bars in F major was composed for the Asperges of Passion Sunday,[1] does not include the doxology.
The score is in three parts. Part 1 (16 bars), sung in homophony, begins with "Domine, hysopo" and ends with "dealbabor". Part 2 (7 bars) follows with the remaining of the text a cappella in Gregorian mode. After a repeat of the incipit (2 bars), part 3 is a modified repeat of the first part.[2]
Discography
Asperges me, WAB 3.1
There is only one commercial recording in full accordance with the score:
- Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Anton Bruckner: Tantum ergo - CD: ASC Edition 3,ssue of the choir, 2008
Asperges me, WAB 3.2
There is only one commercial recording:
- Balduin Sulzer, Chor des Musikgymnasiums Linz, Musik aus der Stifterstraße – LP: Extempore AD-80.01/2, 1980 (sung fully a cappella)
References
Sources
- August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
- James Garrat, Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004. ISBN 0-521-80737-9
- Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXI: Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Hans Bauernfeind and Leopold Nowak (Editor), Vienna, 1984/2001
- Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9
- ISBN 3-7017-1030-9.
External links
- Two Asperges me, WAB 3: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Free scores for Two Asperges me, WAB 3 in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Asperges aeolisch, WAB 3/1 and Asperges F-Dur, WAB 3/2 - Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)
- A life performance of the Asperges me, WAB 3.2 by Gian Michele Cavallo with the Corale Valli di Lanzo can be heard on YouTube: A. Bruckner: Asperges me - at 0:48