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Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s impressive setting of the Latin canticle Te Deum opens with a striking introductory fanfare. It is familiar to millions, since it is the theme tune of the Eurovision TV broa...

First critical edition. Together with Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, Lili Boulanger was one of the most important representatives of impressionism. Despite her short life of just 24 years, she developed a...

In seinem Passionsoratorium Christus am Ölberge gelang es Beethoven einerseits, an eine Tradition des 18. Jahrhunderts anzuknüpfen, andererseits aber auch die aufblühende Gattung des deutschsprachigen...

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) ist heute vor allem als Opernkomponist und als Kompositionslehrer von Giacomo Puccini und Pietro Mascagni bekannt. Seinen größten Erfolg konnte er 1876 an der Mailänder...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, transcriptions of large (choral) symphonic works for two pianos were extremely popular, as they enabled a large audience to get to know classical compositions in...

Anton Bruckner's great Mass in E minor for eight-part choir, wind and brass is a captivating work with its expressive combination of archaic unison, strict counterpoint, and romantic-harmonic wind acc...

Anton Bruckners 'Te Deum' - ein Höhepunkt im Schaffen des Komponisten und eines der bedeutendsten Werke der geistlichen Chorliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts - wird hier in einer modernen wissenschaftlic...

Die bekannteste Totenmesse vor Mozarts unvollendetem Requiem stammt aus der Feder des zu seiner Zeit gefeierten Opernkomponisten Niccolò Jommelli. Die Missa pro defunctis entstand 1756 während seiner...

Soli SSA, Coro SATB, Ob, Tr, 2 Vl, Va, Bc Das Gloria in D RV 589 ist das bekannteste geistliche Werk Vivaldis und gehört zu seinen bedeutendsten kirchenmusikalischen Kompositionen. Die Carus-Ausgabe,...

Die Hymne op. 96 ist eng mit den Drei geistlichen Liedern von 1840 (Carus 40.1166/03) verbunden. Bei der Hymne handelt es sich um die Orchesterfassung und Erweiterung der Drei geistlichen Lieder. 1840...

Nach Aussage des Komponisten ist die Missa sacra sowohl „zum Gottes dienst wie zum Concert gebrauch geeignet' und dabei „nicht schwer ausführbar'. Expressive Harmonik, präzise eingesetzte...

Michael Haydn composed three of his masses in honor of the holy archangels - St Michael, St Gabriel, and the Raphaelismesse in honor of St Raphael now published. By avoiding the use of vocal soloists,...

Experience one of the most thrilling masterpieces of Baroque music with George Frideric Handel's monumental oratorio "Israel in Egypt" (HWV 546, Part I–III). This dramatic biblical epic recounting the...

Experience the youthful charm and spiritual freshness of an early masterpiece: Joseph Haydn's Missa brevis in F major Hob. XXII:1, widely known as the "Jugendmesse" (Youth Mass), captivates with its g...

Discover a masterful early work by Joseph Haydn with the Missa brevis in F major (Hob. XXII:1), fondly known as the 'Jugendmesse' (Youth Mass). This enchanting mass captivates through its youthful fre...

This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider'...

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

Open the festive Advent season with one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most impressive masterpieces: The cantata "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" (BWV 62, 2nd Composition) for the 1st Sunday of Advent radia...

Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (BWV 147) stands as one of the most radiant and beloved masterpieces of Baroque music—immortalized above all by the world-famous chora...

Experience Baroque splendor and exhilarating festivity: Johann Sebastian Bach's secular cantata "Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten!" (BWV 214) is one of the most radiant works in Baroque choral...

The Missa Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 21 is Zelenka's last mass setting. It contains three extended arias (one each for soprano, alto and tenor), concertante choruses and unusually expressive choral fugues....

For the funeral rites after the death of King Augustus I. of Saxony ('Augustus the Strong'), Zelenka composed the Requiem in D (ZWV 46) and the Officium Defunctorum (ZWV 47), both integral parts of th...

The music scholar Malcolm Bruno has prepared a new reconstruction of the work based on the meanwhile established parody model Trauerode BWV 198. Welcome comeback Bach's St John and St. Matthew Passion...