Classical Music

For the moving moment in the Good Friday liturgy, when the priest symbolically washes the feet of several people thereby recalling the thoughtful, loving gesture of Christ at the Last Supper, the Chri...

Ganz in der Weise der Mehrchörigkeit der Renaissance hat Matsushita seine Vertonung der Pfingstsequenz angelegt. Er nutzt die volle Vielstimmigkeit (innerhalb der einzelnen Chöre kommen auch noch gele...

Sehr interessant kombiniert Ayres hier den lateinischen Text des Hymnus mit seiner Übersetzung: in cantus-firmus freier-motettischer Weise deutet er den lateinischen Text musikalisch eindrücklich aus,...

'The Peace meditation' is an entirely tonal piece in A minor, avoiding any modernistic or superficial effects. It nevertheless makes a great impression. The work is entirely textless. The male voices...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

Between 1835 and 1837, the young Bruckner wrote one of his first sacred works, a Pange lingua in C major (WAB 31/1). In 1891, as a mature composer living in Vienna, he reworked this short piece from h...