Partituras de Clásico medio

Con timbales y trompetas a la Marsellesa, una pieza musical francesa volvió a conquistar la conciencia pública en 1953 ("himno de Eurovisión") y se redescubrió a un compositor: el Te Deum H 146 de Mar...

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...

La Missa Sancti Josephi ocupa un lugar clave entre la veintena de grandes misas de Jan Dismas Zelenka. En esta misa, que probablemente fue compuesta en 1732 para la fiesta de un santo (por lo tanto si...

Anton Bruckner composed his first mass, the Mass in D minor, in 1864 in just four months. It was not ready in time for the Kaiser Franz Joseph I's birthday, as planned, but was first performed on 20 N...

Anton Bruckner compuso la primera de sus tres misas orquestales, la Misa en re menor, en sólo cuatro meses en 1864. Sin embargo, no se terminó para el cumpleaños del emperador Francisco José I, como e...

As an acclaimed opera composer, Georges Bizet admitted that he had no real sensibility for sacred music. His Te Deum is nonetheless a truly fascinating and highly expressive work. From the majestic "T...

En 1892, Dvorák recibió el honorable encargo de Nueva York de escribir una cantata festiva para el cuarto centenario del descubrimiento de América por Cristóbal Colón. En respuesta, Dvorák compuso una...

Durante su periodo más productivo como compositor de ópera, Camille Saint-Saëns también escribió obras sacras, entre las que destaca el "Oratorio de Noël" (Oratorio de Navidad), muy popular en todo el...

Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner's symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly e...

Die vorliegende Ausgabe ermöglicht die Aufführung der Kantate in den verschiedenen von Bach praktizierten Besetzungsformen. Bei den Besetzungsangaben zu den Solopartien für hohe Stimme ist jeweils zue...

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...

Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as "a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the wor...

Mendelssohn compuso su primer oratorio "Paulus" bajo la influencia del renacimiento de la "Pasión de San Mateo" de J. S. Bach (1829), que él mismo dirigió. Integró movimientos corales en "Paulus", lo...

La "Misa en la bemol" de Franz Schubert: una obra que ocupó al compositor una y otra vez, con la que -según sus propias palabras- se esforzaba por alcanzar "lo más alto del arte" -y quizás sólo quería...

Antonio Lotti was employed at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice for almost his entire life. In 1717, however, he was lured for two years to Dresden by the Saxon court as a composer of operas. A score of h...

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...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

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...

With this arrangement it is possible to present the work in a performance space of limited size. Haydn's original orchestration is filled with vivid tone painting and this reduced version represents H...