Sacred Music

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...

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...