Charles Gounod

Opera in five acts.

Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelu...

Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelu...

Charles Gounod war eine Ausnahmeerscheinung in der französischen Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts und einer der führenden Komponisten des Second Empire. Gounod war sehr religiös, im Alter wandte e...

Kinderchor (SSA) und Klavier (Harfe)

Die auffälligste Neuerung in dieser Messe ist die Verwendung einer Melodik, die vom Gregorianischen Choral beeinflusst ist. Bereits seit den zwanziger Jahren hatte es in Frankreich vereinzelte Versuch...

Gounod's Prayer (O, Divine Redeemer!), originally a solo for Mezzo-soprano, chorus, and orchestra, comes from his oratorio La Redemption, and here is presented as a beautiful lyrical solo for Euphoniu...

Presentamos el amado "Ave María" de Gounod, basado en un preludio del Clave bien temperado de J.S. Bach, en un arreglo coral accesible. La melodía pasa por todas las voces, mientras que las partes cor...

Solo SATB, Coro SATB, Org Das Requiem in C komponierte Charles Gounod unter dem Eindruck des Todes seines vierjährigen Enkels Maurice. Laut Überlieferung ereilte ihn sein eigener Tod bei der letzten D...

With Text in German and Latin

Transcription for Harp by Karl Oberthür.

De la 'Messe de sainte Cécile' emanaban rayos luminosos. Primero te deslumbraban, luego te encantaban, después te sobrecogían. Así describe Camille Saint-Saëns la impresión que le causó la que probabl...

De la 'Messe de sainte Cécile' emanaban rayos luminosos. Primero te deslumbraban, luego te encantaban, después te sobrecogían. Así describe Camille Saint-Saëns la impresión que le causó la que probabl...

The French Bach cult, which began in the early 19th century, reached an initial highpoint around 1850. Charles Gounod, still largely unknown at the time, also studied Bach's works intensively - his ch...

Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod's oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effecti...

3.2.2.4 - 4.2.2Pist.3.0 - P.S - Hfe, Orgel - Streicher - S, T, B - GCh [SSAATTBB]

Shining rays stream from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first people were dazzled, then bewitched, then overcome.' This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns described the impression made on him b...