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...
Sakrileg oder Geniestreich? Der Komponist und Kapellmeister Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) instrumentierte den 1. Satz der berühmten 'Mondscheinsonate' von Beethoven für Orchester (transponiert n...
A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...
Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Christmas mass, the Messe de Minuit, stands fully in the French tradition of celebrating the happy message of Christ's birth with exuberant cheerfulness. Composed around 169...