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Bach's first Leipzig New Year's cantata has only survived in fragments. Neither the autograph score nor the vocal score of the original source material have survived in full. This applies in particula...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

Neben der h-Moll-Messe existieren von Bach bekanntlich vier weitere, kleinere Messkompositionen, die sog. Lutherischen oder Kyrie-Gloria-Messen. Trotz ihrer hohen musikalischen Qualitäten, stehen sie...

Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Published in collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig with the unfinished revision (1739) in the appendix. The St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Bach's Leipzig period. In contrast...

Alongside the double-choir St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the Mass in B minor, the St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig...

Can be combined with the performance material of older editions (also with the NBA). Bach's St. John Passion is one of the greatest Passion settings in music history. It underwent several fundamental...

Bachs Johannespassion gehört zu den grossartigsten Passionsvertonungen der Musikgeschichte. Sie erlebte zu Bachs Lebzeiten mehrere grundlegende Umgestaltungen. Carus bietet alle erhaltenen Fassungen....

In good time for the Reformation anniversary year 2017, this edition offers four distinctive movements from Johann Sebastian Bach's Reformation cantatas in arrangements for choir and organ. From the c...

In good time for the Reformation anniversary year 2017, this edition offers four distinctive movements from Johann Sebastian Bach's Reformation cantatas in arrangements for choir and organ. From the c...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 9-movement Magnificat from 1749, his first major Berlin vocal work, is one of the most sonorous and, in the vocal solo parts, also one of the most demanding settings of the...

Dieterich Buxtehude composed his greatest oratorical work, the cantata cycle Membra Jesu nostri, for the Passiontide of 1680 and dedicated it to his friend and Swedish court conductor Gustav Düben. In...

The cantata Nun danket alle Gott cannot be assigned to any of Telemann's known cantata years. Its designation "Tempore Messis" in the title of the only surviving source suggests that it was composed o...

The Trauer-Actus is probably the earliest work of the Grimma Telemann cantata complex. Its textual and musical structure suggests that the work was composed during Telemann's time as a pupil in Hildes...

Vivaldi's employment at the "Ospedale della Pietà", one of the four orphanages in Venice where young girls received intensive musical training, prompted him to compose sacred works.

The double-choir psalm setting Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) is one of the most important works by the church composer Vivaldi. Here he draws on the old Venetian tradition of polychoral music, whose composit...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, among other things in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this Vespers Psalm has some peculiarities: the...

By repeating the complete text, the through-composed motet is divided into two parts, preceded by an instrumental prelude and followed by a coda ("Alleluia").

Since the two verifiable autographs of the Offertorium Misericordias Domini have been lost, Robert Münster has for the first time used the copies he has found from the Munich court music for this new...

In this work, one finds Mozart's Salzburg role models with regard to church music. The contrast between solo and tutti and the short imitative sections are reminiscent of Leopold Mozart, Eberlin and M...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Regina coeli" is the first of his three settings of the Marian antiphon for Vespers at Easter.

The autograph was initially lost after the Second World War, but was found again in 1964 and forms the basis for this new critical edition by Christine Martin. Compared to other sources, articulation...

In contrast to the two "Regina coeli" settings K. 74 and 127, which are scored for solo soprano and choir, Mozart uses the solo quartet in K. 276, which, similar to the Salzburg masses, often only dia...

Of the vespers and vesper psalms that Mozart wrote for Salzburg Cathedral, the vesper parts "Dixit et Magnificat" are the earliest. Like the later complete vespers, they belong to the ecclesiastical a...

Mozart's "Sancta Maria" is one of those liturgical chants that are based on the time of the church year or the respective feast of the saints. It was probably sung on a feast of the Virgin Mary follow...