Sacred Music

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

'Der Text von 'Veni, dilecte mi', den bereits Palestrina vertont hat, entstammt dem Hohelied des Alten Testaments, diesem Buch voll knisternder Erotik. Ich habe den Text als das vertont, was er mir zu...

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,...

Mit dem hypnotischen 'Pater noster' stellt Carus Jacek Sykulski als neuen Komponisten in der Reihe 'Carus Contemporary' vor. Während Sykulski als Leiter des Akademischen Chores der Universität Poznan...

The Ave verum directs our gaze towards Christ crucified on the cross for us in the form of a prayer of adoration. In this setting, a sound pulsates at first which can be described as gently shining. A...

Der 92. Psalm preist lyrisch und fröhlich Gottes Werke. Bereits in vorchristlicher Zeit gehörte er zur Liturgie des Sabbatsgottesdienstes. Der japanische Komponist Matshushita hat diesen schönen Psalm...

Reiner Schuhenn's mass setting for mixed choir only requires one male-voice part. The setting includes the standard parts of the mass: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei (the Credo has been omitted...

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...