October 20, 2020

In September, my chorale partita "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen" was performed by organist Babett Hartman and soprano Dorothee Mields in the Zeiter Dom, the cathedral made famous by Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672). The concert was recorded and posted on YouTube in two videos, one featuring my piece alone. The concert also got a nice writeup in the Zeitz paper.

Although the partita was written for organ solo, the chorale melody appears in a majority of the movements without ornamentation so that the tune can be sung along with the organ. The idea of singing along was already in my mind as I was writing the partitas in 2018, and it worked so well, I think it may be worthwhile to write out soprano parts for the other partitas as well. If and when I do that, I'll post them on IMSLP (where the score Sechs Choralpartiten can already be downloaded for free).

Stay well everyone,
AAH