Música sacra para orquesta

Incluso en vida de Ludwig van Beethoven, el compositor era tan venerado que sus contemporáneos arreglaban su música -sobre todo las conocidas obras instrumentales- para coro. En algunos casos, incluso...

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afiel...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Pauken-Messe - 'Die ,Missa in Tempore Belli' ist ein in mehrfacher Hinsicht interessantes Werk. Zum einen lässt diese Messvertonung einige Rückschlüsse auf die Situation der österreichischen Kirchenmu...

Schöpfungsmesse - Innerhalb von ca. sechs Wochen hat Haydn die Schöpfungsmesse im Jahre 1801 als fünfte der insgesamt sechs späten Missae solemnes im Auftrag seines Dienstherrn Fürst Nikolaus II. Este...

The Missa Gratias agimus tibi by Jan Disma Zelenka was composed in 1730, a little before the Missa Sancti Josephi (Carus 27.082), and is thus already close to Zelenka's late style. As a festive mass,...

Neben dem Te Deum und dem Stabat Mater zählt Dvoráks D-Dur-Messe op. 86 zu den herausragenden Werken seines geistlichen Schaffens. Sie liegt als Orgel und Orchesterfassung vor. Seit ihrer Uraufführung...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

Süssmayr-Version - Die Geschichte um die Entstehung des Requiem ist von Anekdoten und Legenden umrankt. Überlastung durch die Komposition und Aufführung von La Clemenza di Tito und Die Zauberflöte und...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

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...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's radiant Missa brevis et solemnis in C major, K. 259, famously known as the "Organ Solo Mass", is one of the most charming masterpieces of the Viennese Classical era. Despite...

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...

The Frankfurt composer and professor of composition Kurt Hessenberg (1908-1994), together with Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler, ranks among the most important representatives of Protestant church music...