Partituras medio para Orquesta

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...

El compositor británico Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) se ha dedicado a la música coral de muy diversas maneras. Fue tenor de los legendarios King's Singers y más tarde trabajó durante 18 años como orga...

El compositor británico Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) se ha dedicado a la música coral de muy diversas maneras. Fue tenor de los legendarios King's Singers y más tarde trabajó durante 18 años como orga...

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...

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...

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...

La primera de las dos misas de Beethoven es decididamente moderna y progresista en su lenguaje tonal subjetivo y confesional. Abre mundos de expresión completamente nuevos para el texto litúrgico. No...

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...

Der Satz, vermutlich im September 1812 komponiert, stellt eine der frühesten Messvertonungen Schuberts dar. Soli ST, Coro SATB, Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org

In 1892 Dvorák received a prestigious commission from New York to write a festive cantata to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery of America. In response he wrote an im...

During his most productive period as an opera composer, Camille Saint-Saëns also wrote sacred works, among which his Oratorio de Noël has enjoyed great worldwide popularity. The colorful and opulently...

Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Hochstein

Haydn gelingt es in der Mariazeller-Messe überzeugend, eine spezifische Synthese herzustellen zwischen den hohen Ansprüchen ,autonomer' Kunstmusik einerseits, die in entsprechenden Kompositionstechnik...

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

Mozarts Missa in C-Dur KV 317, unbegründeterweise Krönungsmesse genannt, zählt zu den beliebtesten und am meisten aufgeführten Werken ihrer Gattung. Das in vieler Hinsicht aufschlussreiche Autograph d...

Die Messenvertonungen Mozarts gehören seit jeher zum festen Bestand der kirchenmusikalischen Praxis. Wie nur wenige andere Vertonungen des Ordinariums verbiden sie hohe künstlerische Vollendung und Kl...

Im Verleich zu den anderen Messen Zelenkas ist die 'Missa Gratias agimus tibi' trotz der Vertonung mit Soli, Chor, Trompetenchor, Holzbläsern, Streichern und Generalbass eine 'Missa brevis'. Das bedeu...