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Bach's Mass in B minor is one of his largest and most ambitious works. It occupied the composer for over two decades: from the Sanctus (1724) to the "Missa" of 1733 and the supplementary Ordinary move...

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...

Practice-oriented Urtext edition based on the current state of Bach research With compact critical report Interpretation aids for articulation by marking analogous passages in the score Each era hear...

Practice-oriented Urtext edition based on the current state of Bach research With compact critical report Interpretation aids for articulation by marking analogous passages in the score Each era hear...

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...

Just one year before his death, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy achieved a success with his oratorio "Elijah", which has made him one of the most popular oratorio composers to this day. With gripping dram...

Just one year before his death, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy achieved a success with his oratorio "Elijah", which has made him one of the most popular oratorio composers to this day. With gripping dram...

Franz Schubert's "Mass in A flat": a work that occupied the composer time and again, with which - in his words - he strove for the "highest in art" - and perhaps only wanted to achieve a position at t...

The first of Beethoven's two Mass settings is decidedly modern and forward-looking in its subjective, confessional tonal language. It opens up completely new worlds of expression for the liturgical te...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio in the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

The Missa in c KV 427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a fascinating work. To speak of "the" mass alone is inaccurate, as it is basically nothing more than a musical torso, full of riddles and problems -...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

Thanks to the skilful dramatization, the independent instrumental parts and the effective choruses, Berlioz's trilogy "L'Enfance du Christ" (The Childhood of Christ) is a rewarding alternative for Chr...

Der Satz, vermutlich im September 1812 komponiert, stellt eine der frühesten Messvertonungen Schuberts dar. Soli ST, Coro SATB, Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org

After his early departure from the opera stage in 1829, Gioachino Rossini only composed larger-scale sacred music in addition to chamber music. This included the "Stabat Mater", which was composed in...

Several elements contribute to the Christmassy character of this mass, which is characterized by its high level of compositional skill: creative devices such as triadic motifs, cradle symbolism as wel...

Goldberg-Variationen - Mit seiner Bearbeitung wollte Rheinberger das Werk der Praxis wieder zugänglich machen. Er begnügte sich freilich nicht mit einer Einrichtung der Variationen für zwei Klaviere,...

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, der älteste Bach-Sohn, zeigt in seinem Schaffen einen ausgeprägten schöpferischen Individualismus. Seine Sonaten für ein Tasteninstrument (Cembalo oder Hammerklavier), die zu...

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, der älteste Bach-Sohn, zeigt in seinem Schaffen einen ausgeprägten schöpferischen Individualismus. Seine Sonaten für ein Tasteninstrument (Cembalo oder Hammerklavier), die zu...

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, der älteste Bach-Sohn, zeigt in seinem Schaffen einen ausgeprägten schöpferischen Individualismus. Seine Sonaten für ein Tasteninstrument (Cembalo oder Hammerklavier), die zu...

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, der älteste Bach-Sohn, zeigt in seinem Schaffen einen ausgeprägten schöpferischen Individualismus. Seine Sonaten für ein Tasteninstrument (Cembalo oder Hammerklavier), die zu...

Puccini as a creator of piano music? The new volume of the "Edizione Nazionale" invites you to discover this almost unknown side of the composer. Many works are published here for the first time. Thro...