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Coro SATB, 2 Ob (2 Cl), 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Vc/Cb, Org

In his Missa sacra, Op. 147, the Protestant Robert Schumann included the solo offertory hymn “Tota pulchra es, Maria”, entirely in the Romantic Catholic tradition of devotion to Mary. This wonderfully...

The harrowing Old Testament story of the army commander Jephthah, bound by a sacred vow to kill his daughter, inspired the Roman composer Giacomo Carissimi to create this intense and moving setting. W...

2 Vl, Va, Bc [Fl o Blfl, Ob]

This six-movement chorale cantata was first performed on 26 December 1724. The text is based on the Lutheran translation of the early Christian hymn A solis ortus cardinem. The outer movements frame t...

Although 'Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz' (What is it troubles thee, my heart) BWV 138 is based on the chorale of the same name, it is nevertheless not regarded as one of Bach's chorale cantatas. I...

Bach's chorale cantata with its opening text 'Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott recht kindlich kann verlassen' (Tis well with him who on the Lord trusts just like a child) BWV 139 was performed for t...

The cantata 'Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren' BWV 154 was first performed on 9 January 1724, the 1st Sunday after Epiphany. The structure and extent of the work are unusual: it comprises eight, inste...

Great Baroque church music full of color and powerful imagery! 'Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing, rejoice and praise his holy name with the trumpets and cornetts! And nature shall join in, the seas s...

Antonio Vivaldi’s monumental setting of Psalm 110, the “Dixit Dominus” RV 594, stands as one of the most magnificent highlights of Venetian Baroque music. Conceived for splendid polychoral forces, the...

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...

The psalm setting "Credidi, propter quod locutus sum" RV 605 is a curiosity among Antonio Vivaldi’s sacred vocal works, as it is an arrangement of an arrangement. The basis for this contrafactum was t...

The psalm setting "Credidi, propter quod locutus sum" RV 605 is a curiosity among Antonio Vivaldi’s sacred vocal works, as it is an arrangement of an arrangement. The basis for this contrafactum was t...

The psalm setting "Credidi, propter quod locutus sum" RV 605 is a curiosity among Antonio Vivaldi’s sacred vocal works, as it is an arrangement of an arrangement. The basis for this contrafactum was t...

Bruckner’s Tantum ergo in B-flat major was performed on New Year’s Eve 1849 at St. Florian monastery, where the composer was employed as a teacher. This short work captivates with an expressive, beaut...

The "Petite Messe solennelle" from 1863 is Rossini's second extensive sacred composition alongside the "Stabat Mater". The mass is an occasional work, written for the inauguration of the private chape...

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

Scored for SATB choir with additional wind parts by Joseph von Eybler; trombone parts added by Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried; revised by Otto Nicolai (1843). / Pergolesi’s last major composition, th...

Bruckner's great "Mass in F minor" is one of the composer's most important works – and of 19th-century choral music in general. In a unique way, the composer succeeds here in musically penetrating the...

In 1892, Dvorák was honored to receive a commission from New York to compose a festive cantata to mark the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America. Within a short space of tim...