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Karg-Elert entwickelte in seiner mittleren Schaffensphase einen eigenen, unverwechselbaren Chorstil, und seine wenigen Chorwerke enstammen den Jahren 1912 und 1913. Sie gehören fraglos zu den Hauptwer...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

The performance material is derived from the scholarly-critical editions of the 'Das Erbe deutscher Musik'' series, on which the informative Preface and Critical Report were based.

Bach had bequeathed the score of the Mass in A major to his son Wilhelm Friedemann. From him, the copy soon came into the possession of the Leipzig publishing house of Breitkopf & Härtel, as can be se...

The Critical Report on the Oratorio "Elijah" concludes the five-volume edition on this major work by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It presents - for once in the form of a volume separate from the music...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...

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...

The Creation appeared in print in several languages and with various publishers, including Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, after exuberantly celebrated first performances in Vienna. For Haydn's oratori...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

The Missa Dei Patris ZWV 19 was composed in 1740 and ranks among the later works of the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. It opens an incompletely transmitted cycle of six masses which the compose...

The Missa in c was so dear to Mozart's heart that he cited it as 'proof of the reality of my promise' to 'heyrate' the beloved Constanze and complete the only half-finished mass. At the same time, on...

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....

La composición de Kuhnau del salmo 98 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied es una sonora cantata con la opulenta partitura de dos trompetas, timbales y una sección de cuerda a cinco voces. Esta joya barroc...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...

Orchestral material according to the new Beethoven Complete Edition by G. Henle Verlag. All conducting scores and orchestral parts as well as the piano reductions and choral scores are available exclu...

Friedrich Schneider's second oratorio Das Weltgericht was an immediate success at its 1820 premiere in Leipzig. The initial triumph of the work, which the appearance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus o...

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...