Classical Music

While Bruckner was still a student in Kronstorf, he composed two Asperges me motets WAB 3 for the Sundays in Lent. WAB 3,2 dispenses with the doxology and is kept quite simple and beautiful with its c...

In 1856, Bruckner composed the motet Ave Maria for choir, organ and violoncello for his old place of work, St. Florian. The work is quasi basso continuo in the style of late baroque Austrian sacred mu...

In 1856, Bruckner composed the motet Ave Maria for choir, organ and violoncello for his old place of work, St. Florian. The work is quasi basso continuo in the style of late baroque Austrian sacred mu...

The responsory Libera me from the Requiem Mass dates from Bruckner's years of study in Kronstorf and is stylistically reminiscent of the early Viennese classical period. The organ takes over the funct...

The responsory Libera me from the Requiem Mass dates from Bruckner's years of study in Kronstorf and is stylistically reminiscent of the early Viennese classical period. The organ takes over the funct...

Charles Gounod, the 200th anniversary of whose birth falls in 2018, is known above all for his operas - Faust, Sapho, Roméo et Juliette etc. But throughout his life Gounod was also a very religious ma...

The German-Italian composer and Rheinberger pupil Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was very successful with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work "Die neugierigen Frauen" premiered...

The German-Italian composer and Rheinberger pupil Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was very successful with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work "Die neugierigen Frauen" premiered...

The German-Italian composer and Rheinberger pupil Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was very successful with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work "Die neugierigen Frauen" premiered...

The German-Italian composer and Rheinberger pupil Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was very successful with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work "Die neugierigen Frauen" premiered...

The "Miserere" is based on the Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the 1st part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In his choral version, Heribert Breuer transposes the origin...

The "Miserere" is based on the Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the 1st part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In his choral version, Heribert Breuer transposes the origin...

Der 130. Psalm ist einer der dramatischsten und sicherlich auch meistvertonten Texte des Alten Testaments. 'Aus der Tiefe rufe ich zu Dir... wer wird vor Dir bestehen?' Diese Klage vertont Matsushita...

Hope is Easter music for mixed choir, alto saxophone, piano, bass and percussion by the Danish composer John Høybye, who enjoys high recognition as a (choral) conductor, arranger and composer far beyo...

In the late 17th century, English musicians celebrated St. Cecilia as the patron saint of music with special concerts and church services every year on November 22. Handel revived the tradition of the...

Today, César Franck (1822-1890) is considered one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. His main work "Les Béatitudes", a monumental oratorio setting of the Beatitudes from...

The "Gloria in D" RV 589 is one of Vivaldi's best-known sacred works. The musically representative work in the style of a so-called "cantata mass" is divided into 12 parts, which differ in instrumenta...

For this work 'carus music' the choir app, is available. In addition to the vocal score and a recording, the app offers a coach which helps to learn the choral parts. Please find more information at '...

When it comes to paying tribute to Heinrich Schütz's compositional achievement, in his art his treatment of the text and language must be mentioned first. The 'Geistliche Chor-Music 1648', a collectio...

Volume 19 of the Schütz Complete Edition brings together 21 very different compositions from various phases of Schütz's compositional output. The spectrum ranges from a short, two-part sacred concerto...

The three great motets Quam dilecta, In convertendo and Deus noster refugium, which Jean-Philippe Rameau composed between 1713 and 1715, have remained relatively unknown to this day. And yet these mot...