Sacred Music

contains: Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) in C Confitebor (Ps 110) in e Beatus vir (Ps 111) in B Laudate pueri (Ps 112) in F Laudate Dominum (Ps 116) in A Magnificat in C

It was during Mozart's last years at Salzburg, 1779 and 1780, that he composed the two sets of Vespers, KV 321 and KV 339. The music ot these Vespers gives no indication of Mozart's many grounds for a...

Franz von Suppè did not write his "Requiem" as a generally human or pantheistic lament for the dead, but as a consciously Christian-Catholic work of confession. The fact that Suppè succeeded in compos...

Cherubini's Requiem in C minor for mixed choir (without vocal soloists) and orchestra, which is presented here in a critically correct new edition, is one of the most important contributions to the ge...

Cherubini's "Messe solennelle in G" was originally composed for a planned coronation ceremony in 1819. However, the celebrations did not take place. The mass disappeared into oblivion and was only red...

Unlike in the well-known settings of the "Seven Words" by Schütz or Haydn, Franck comments on the sayings of the crucified Jesus in his opulently scored composition with passages from the Old and New...

The Tantum ergo in A major, WAB 43, is one of Bruckner’s student pieces, preceding the later Tantum ergo settings, WAB 41/1–4. The parallel sixths and the ending evoke memories of late Viennese Classi...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

The arrangement of chorales had already played a major role during Mendelssohn's apprenticeship with Zelter, and his preoccupation with the Protestant chorale can even be found throughout his symphoni...

Diese 'Werktagsmesse' ist für die Fastenzeit geeignet. Im schlichten Note-gegen-Note-Satz komponiert, weist das frühe Werk [1843-44] erste harmonische Kühnheiten auf, die Bruckner während seiner Studi...

Vierstimmige 'Choralmesse' ohne Kyrie und Gloria. Sie enthält das Graduale Christus factus est und das Offertorium Dextera Domini.

With the deeply moving work "Durch seine Wunden sind wir geheilt" (By his wounds we are healed), the renowned Carus-Verlag presents an impressive sacred choral composition ideally suited for Passionti...

Coro SATB, Org - Orgelauszug

Mendelssohn's unfinished 3rd oratorio in the first critical edition. Performance material is available separately for Part 1 and Part 2 of the oratorio. Part 1: "The Nativity", Part 2: "The Passion of...

The arrangement of chorales had already played a major role during Mendelssohn's apprenticeship with Zelter, and his preoccupation with the Protestant chorale can even be found throughout his symphoni...

The arrangement of chorales had already played a major role during Mendelssohn's apprenticeship with Zelter, and his preoccupation with the Protestant chorale can even be found throughout his symphoni...

Psalm 112 was composed by the 22-year-old George Frideric Handel during his stay in Italy. The thematic material of the composition comes in part from one of Handel's early works in Halle, which uses...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Oratorio de Noël for five vocal solos, mixed choir, strings, organ and harp in 1858. The work, which is sung in Latin, is based on texts from the Old and New Testament...

The Gloria is the 13-year-old Mendelssohn's first major church composition. It was written at the beginning of 1822 as part of his composition lessons with Carl Friedrich Zelter, the director of the B...

Experience Joseph Haydn's radiant Viennese Classical masterpiece in a practical and resonant arrangement: the beloved Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, widely cherished as the "Little Organ Mass", c...

Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae - Haydns sogenannte Große Orgelsolomesse in Es-Dur zählt zu jenen Werken des Komponisten, die schon früh eine ausgesprochen weite Verbreitung fanden. Die i...

Missa Cellensis in honorem BVM. Cäcilienmesse - Als Joseph Haydn 1766, nach dem Tod seines Vorgängers Gregor Joseph Werner, die Leitung der Esterházy-Kapelle übernahm, begann er mit der Komposition se...

When Joseph Haydn took over the direction of the Esterházy Chapel in 1766 after the death of his predecessor Gregor Joseph Werner, he began composing his first and most extensive Missa solemnis. The t...

Haydn probably wrote the Missa Sancti Nicolai in 1772 for Prince Nicolaus Esterházy's name day. Not only is it comparatively large in scale, but the orchestra is also larger than usual for Missae brev...