Classical Music

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) is best known today as an opera composer and as the composition teacher of Giacomo Puccini and Pietro Mascagni. His greatest success came in 1876 at La Scala in Milan w...

The cantata "Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende" BWV 28 for the Sunday after Christmas begins unusually: with an aria instead of the usual opening chorus, characterized by joyful, dance-like rhythms i...

Festive horn sounds open Bach's cantata Darzu ist erscheinen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40, first performed on 26.12.1723. The two inner chorales, which are inserted between the recitative and the correspond...

Bach's second cantata beginning with the text "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" BWV 62 was performed on 1 Advent (the only Advent Sunday with church music in Leipzig at the time) in 1724 and belongs to t...

With its large orchestration, which was used chorally in accordance with older models, the cantata is a festive piece. In terms of its external splendor, it is at best equalled, but not surpassed, by...

The cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe BWV 64, composed for Christmas Day 1723, is characterized by the opening chorus in the "old style" without obbligato instruments. As with the cantata Darzu ist ersc...

Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag (Frühfassung). Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor, Timp, 3 Ob, Str, Fg, Org

Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtsfeiertag. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Fl, Ob, Obda, Obca, Str, Org - Tonart D-Dur / h-Moll

The cantus firmus is present in four of the six movements, giving the cantata great unity. In addition to the opening chorus and final chorale, it is heard in one of the rare tercets in Bach's vocal w...

Bach was not able to use the Weimar Advent cantata 'Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht' BWV 186a in Leipzig, as there was no performance of church music there between the 1st Sunday of Advent and Christmas. B...

Carsten Klomp hat für die vorliegende Ausgabe den Orchestersatz der 1. Kantate aus Johann Sebastian Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium auf die Orgel übertragen. Damit ermöglicht er nicht nur eine Aufführung in...

Das Weihnachtsoratorium nur mit Orgel- statt mit Orchesterbegleitung? Kann das funktionieren - ausgerechnet bei diesem so festlichen und farbig orchestrierten Werk? Die vorliegende Bearbeitung zeigt:...

Das Weihnachtsoratorium nur mit Orgel- statt mit Orchesterbegleitung? Kann das funktionieren - ausgerechnet bei diesem so festlichen und farbig orchestrierten Werk? Die vorliegende Bearbeitung zeigt:...

The Christmas Oratorio with just organ instead of orchestral accompaniment? Can this work with such a festive and colorfully orchestrated piece? This arrangements show that it can, and surprisingly we...

The Advent cantata Machet die Tore weit has long been one of Telemann's most frequently performed church music works. Among the manuscripts that transmit the cantata is an important testimony to the e...

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

Of the 11 surviving settings of the Mass by Charpentier, the present work, the Messe de minuit, is without doubt one of the most popular. Although Charpentier's Parisian career is quite well documente...

Of the 11 surviving settings of the Mass by Charpentier, the present work, the Messe de minuit, is without doubt one of the most popular. Although Charpentier's Parisian career is quite well documente...

'Chor zu dritt' wendet sich mit seinen dreistimmigen Sätzen für gemischten Chor an die vielen Chöre, die der zumeist vierstimmigen Chorliteratur mit ihrer Aufteilung in hohe und tiefe Männerstimmen ni...

für Soli (SATB), gem. Chor und Orchester Chorpartitur

Rachmaninoff's music for the 'All-Night Vigil' service - long known inaccurately as his 'Vespers' - is a masterpiece in its own right. It draws on centuries-old Orthodox chant and the performance trad...

This best-selling anthem now has an SAB voicing an expanded instrumentation, and new ChoirTrax with SATB split-trax. This tender setting is perfect for Christmas Eve or any December service. Available...

This best-selling anthem now has an SAB voicing an expanded instrumentation, and new ChoirTrax with SATB split-trax. This tender setting is perfect for Christmas Eve or any December service. Available...