Opus 10 - Two Cantatas

    ÒBeide Kantaten wurden Komponiert zum Dank fŸr die Entlassung aus dem Konzentrationslager Berlin-SachsenhausenÓ [in 1937].

    ÒDie erste Kantate fŸhrte ich zum ersten Male in Salzhausen auf im Jahre 1957. SpŠter 2x in St. Michaelis LŸneburg. Die zweite Kantate ist noch unberŸhrt.Ó 

    (Both cantatas were composed in thanksgiving for [my] release from the concentration camp in Berlin-Sachsenhausen in 1937.

    I performed the first cantata for the first time in Salzhausen in 1957. Later twice in St. Michaelis in LŸneburg. The second cantata has never been performed.)             --Jan Bender Werkverzeichnis 1

 

    [A copy of a recording from a 1959 performance of opus 10 no. 1 in LŸneburg is on deposit in the Bender Archives in the Stadtbibliothek LŸbeck.]

 

            Opus10nr1      Opus10nr2

 

Opus 10 No. 1

   Now Let All Loudly Sing Praise to God the Lord (Nun preiset alle)

         Concordia, 1962. 97-6376, 97-6389, 97-4575–97‑4583

             choir SATB, fl, ob, bn, str, cont.

             cantata (English and German text)

             5 movements (stanzas)

                      Composed: 1937

                     Dedicated to Dietmar and Wolfhardt Pohlmann

 

Opus 10 No. 2

   Wenn wir in hšchsten Nšten sein

         unpublished (as of August, 1995)

             choir SATB, fl, ob, eh, fag, str, cembalo

             cantata, 7 stanzas

                      Composed: July–August 1937

                      never performed (as of September 2005)!