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A special mass for a special occasion: Giovanni Alberti Ristori's (Christmas) Messa per il Santissimo Natale. From 1715 to 1753, Ristori rose to the position of Vice-Kapellmeister at the Electoral Sax...

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's cantata BWV 151, whose wonderfully intimate opening aria is rightly considered one of Bach's "happiest inspirations" (Alfred Dürr), was composed for Christmas Day 1725. The flute and oboe d'amo...

The Christmas cantata "Gloria in excelsis Deo", which has always presented researchers with a number of exciting puzzles, is one of the few Latin works written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It consists of...

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...

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...

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 Bohemian Shepherd's Mass from 1796 by Mozart's contemporary Jakub Jan Ryba is the most important of the so-called Czech Christmas masses. These are masses in a popularly reinterpreted sense, in wh...

If you are looking for an atmospheric and lyrical work with rewarding tasks for your choir, Rheinberger's Star of Bethlehem is the right choice. In nine scenes (Expectation, The Shepherds, Apparition...

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...

Gavin Bryars' two Billesdon Carols - New Prince, new Pomp and The Golden Carol of the Three Kings - were written especially for the village of Billesdon's Christmas carol service where the composer li...

As Master of the Queens Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment began in 2004. Kings and Shepherds is the fourth and like...