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Nana Forte's "Stabat Mater", composed for a six-part mixed choir, is inspired by the timeless sacred text and offers a deeply human reflection on grief and compassion. The piece speaks a modern musica...

The choral piece "Regna terrae" (based on Psalm 68, verses 33 and 35) by Dariusz Zimnicki radiates joy, which is expressed above all through its rhythm. In the more melodic middle section, the voices...

From a music-historical point of view, Anton Diabelli belongs to a middle group of Biedermeier composers who can be assigned neither to the Classical nor to the Romantic period. Although Diabelli want...

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...

Tango Argentino meets Classic! The Argentinian composer Martín Palmeri, whose "Misatango" is known and loved by many choirs, sets the 127th psalm "Nisi Dominus" to music for solo soprano and mixed cho...

The famous merchant's son and later founder of the order, Francis of Assisi, has repeatedly been taken as a source of inspiration from a wide variety of perspectives and Damijan Mocnik also follows in...

The cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181, composed for Sunday Sexagesimae 1724, has only survived incompletely: IT is missing the obbligato instrumental part of the second aria, which was rec...

The cantata "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" BWV 183 for Sunday Exaudi is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christian Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

On April 1, 1725, Bach formed the Easter cantata "Kommt, gehet und eilt" BWV 249.3, which was to become the nucleus of the Easter Oratorio, from the Shepherd's Cantata BWV 249.1 he had composed a few...

The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and is one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717...

Psalm 150 from 1884 is a composition from César Franck's creative maturity. The characteristic features of his style appear in a small space: the emphatically symphonic language, the bold, unmistakabl...

Ensembles for whom Schubert's "great" masses are not accessible will find a pleasant alternative in this compact and smaller scored mass from 1816. In terms of its external dimensions, it is a Missa b...

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...

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]

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...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. First you were dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression made on him by Charles Goun...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

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...

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...

Psalm texts inspired Mendelssohn throughout his career, and he left behind five large orchestral psalms in addition to a cappella movements.

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...