Bach – Sleepers Awake, Cantata No. 140 (String Quartet Score) – Score Digital Download

Bach - Sleepers Awake

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The arranger Carlo Martelli has amused himself, and he hopes his audience, by combining Bach's famous melody with Puccini's Nessun Dorma which translated means, of course, 'None shall sleep' – hence Sleepers Awake!

Bach - Sleepers Awake
Bach – Sleepers Awake, Cantata No. 140 (String Quartet Score) – Score Digital Download

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The arranger Carlo Martelli has amused himself, and he hopes his audience, by combining Bach's famous melody with Puccini's Nessun Dorma which translated means, of course, 'None shall sleep' – hence Sleepers Awake!

Review: "This is something of a dare devil arrangement of Bach's famous melody, combining it with Puccini's Nessun Dorma! For schools, studios and professionals." – New Issues November 1994

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Martelli, Carlo

Carlo Martelli was born on the 12th December 1935 in London to an Italian father and an English mother. By the age of eleven Carlo had developed a passion for the symphony orchestra. Just before his twelfth birthday he started taking regular violin lessons and very soon began writing elaborate orchestral scores achieving a mastery in this field by the age of sixteen, by which time he had obtained a County Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition and viola. By the time he was 21 he had written a string quartet and had already had a great deal of success with several large scale serious symphonic compositions, notably his Second Symphony, which had many performances and broadcasts by several major orchestras in the few years after its completion. In the 1960's he turned to film music to make a living, and also worked steadily as a freelance viola player. His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world.

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