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'This is the best of me', wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius. Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large or...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Mozart's Requiem is known to the general public in the version by his pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr, which was completed immediately after Mozart's death. The attacks against Süßmayr's addition began in 1...

Only the text and the last page of the autograph score of the Christmas Cantata Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe BWV 197.1 (197a) have survived, beginning with the end of the 2nd aria. This, along with the c...

The story of the Requiem's creation is shrouded in anecdotes and legends. Overwork from composing and performing La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute as well as an acute infection led to the compos...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F minor" is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F" minor is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

With its detailed scene directions and many short forms such as accompagnato recitatives and ariosi, "Belshazzar" is the most dramatic of George Frideric Handel's oratorios. In fact, it is even a sacr...

Antonín Dvorák's impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, choir and orchestra is probably the best known of the composer's sacred works. Dvorák's own painful experiences - his first daughter died in 18...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Fg, 2 Ctr, 3 Trb, 2 Bassetthörner, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org.

George Frideric Handel is regarded as the first and most important English representative of the oratorio genre. The Messiah in particular is regarded as the epitome of sacred music and is also one of...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB/SATB, 2 Orch: 2 Ob, 2 Tr, 2 Vl, Va, Bc, [Timp]

Schubert's Mass in E flat major is the last of his six settings of the Ordinarium Missae and at the same time his most important work of this genre. The Mass is full of varied drama and confessional e...

Bruckner described his setting of Psalm 150 of 1892 as 'my best festive cantata of all'. Psalm 150 has a definite festive character, manifested straight away in the monumental Hallelujah theme for the...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Bach's Christmas Oratorio has been published as a scholarly edition for practical use as part of the Stuttgart Bach Editions. The edition is based on Bach's autograph score and the original parts. The...

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...

Ottorino Respighi completed the sacred choral work "Lauda per la Natività del Signore" in 1930, which remains unique in his oeuvre. In this hymn of praise to the Christmas miracle, sonorous choral pas...

Dum medium silentium, which sets a text from the Book of Wisdom, celebrates stillness as a prerequisite for the birth of God's word both in the world and in the human soul. With its composed dissolvin...

Dum medium silentium, which sets a text from the Book of Wisdom, celebrates stillness as a prerequisite for the birth of God's word both in the world and in the human soul. With its composed dissolvin...

Friede auf Erden op. 13 is regarded as Arnold Schoenberg's last tonal composition and is one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School. On the same day that he completed his op. 13, Schoen...

Friede auf Erden op. 13 is regarded as Arnold Schoenberg's last tonal composition and is one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School. On the same day that he completed his op. 13, Schoen...

Trauermarsch - Coro SATB

This is the best of me, wrote Edward Elgar after the final bar of his "Dream of Gerontius". First performed in 1900, the work has long been one of the standard works of great oratorio choruses in Grea...