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The Missa Sti Bernardi by Offida from 1796 marks the beginning of Joseph Haydn's late work. The work was given the nickname "Heiligmesse" (Holy Mass) because Haydn quotes the then well-known hymn "Hei...

The Missa in B flat major by Joseph Haydn presented here has gone down in music history under the nickname "Theresienmesse". The reason for this name is unclear, but could be related to the performanc...

The Harmoniemesse is the last of the "High Masses" composed in the years 1796-1802 for the name day of Princess Esterházy and at the same time Haydn's last completed composition. It was given its name...

Like few other settings of the Ordinary, Mozart's masses combine high artistic perfection and beauty of sound with the requirements of the liturgy; even the text-rich movements "Gloria" and "Credo" in...

The festive composition with its large orchestration for the time was performed for the first time on June 29, 1751 on the occasion of the consecration of the new Catholic Court Church in Dresden.

The "Missa pastoralis in C", presented here for the first time, was composed around 1808. It is part of a cycle of sacred chants called "Cursus sacro-harmonicus", which Ryba created as an ordinarium a...

Venetian version The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl'Incurabili in Venice. As this was a musical training center for talented girls and young women, the vocal pa...

Born in the same year as Mozart, Joseph Martin Kraus, who, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and also died far too young, has received more attention again in recent years...

The Stabat Mater, composed in 1767, was Joseph Haydn's first sacred work, which he composed after taking up his post with Prince Esterházy in Eisenstadt. Like hardly any other of his sacred works, it...

With the Missa Sancti Amandi, composed in 1776, Haydn created a festive mass "in pieno", i.e. scored for choir and orchestra without vocal soloists. Although very densely scored, this work is characte...

The fourth (or first) of the eleven Cannons Anthems with the text O sing unto the Lord, HWV 249b has a small instrumentation in comparison to the other anthems composed in Cannons. This practical edit...

Handel's Jubilate HWV 279 from Utrecht thrilled London audiences at its very first performance and continues to do so today in concert halls and churches around the world, partly due to its wide range...

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

Au terme de sa formation à l'École de musique classique et religieuse de Paris, Gabriel Fauré travailla surtout comme musicien d'église avant d'être appelé à la fonction de directeur du Conservatoire...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Bc

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, [2 Cor, 2 Tr, Timp], Bc

Volgarizzata da Dante - Das'' Ave Maria'' eignet sich zum Musizieren im kleineren Rahmen. Anstelle des lateinischen Textes vertonte Verdi eine zu seinen Lebzeiten noch Dante zugeschriebene italienisch...

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...

With timpani and trumpets à la Marseillaise, a French piece of music conquered the public consciousness again in 1953 ("Eurovision anthem") and a composer was rediscovered: Marc-Antoine Charpentier's...

The Missa Sancti Josephi occupies a key position among Jan Dismas Zelenka's 20 or so large masses. In this mass, which was probably composed in 1732 for a saint's feast (therefore without a Credo), th...

Anton Bruckner composed the first of his three orchestral masses, the Mass in D minor, in just four months in 1864. Nevertheless, it was not completed for Emperor Franz Joseph I's birthday as planned,...

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

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first one was dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression that Charles...

Weber's "Missa sancta No. 1" in E flat major is also known as the "Freischütz Mass", as he composed it in 1818 while working on the opera of the same name. The mass already enjoyed great popularity am...