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In a mixture of cantata and concert piece, Beethoven sets a hymn to art in the Choral Fantasy. The approximately twenty-minute work is often seen as a precursor to the "Ode to Joy" of the 9th Symphony...

With the Schicksalslied, Brahms created a timeless piece of music in a very personal reinterpretation of the idea of fate, which knows how to impress in the concert hall as well as in the church. This...

The soft light of the early morning, the song of the cicadas and the beguiling scent of thyme: "Matinée de Provence" describes a morning in Provence, from the first rays of sunshine to the oppressive...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

Goethe's dramatic ballad "The First Walpurgis Night" inspired Mendelssohn to create a magnificent and vivid depiction of the conflict between an old pagan community and the new aspirations of Christia...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

With "El Pessebre (The Manger)", Carus-Verlag presents a deeply moving oratorio that brings the Christmas story to life with rich sonority and profound emotional depth. The work conveys a timeless mes...

Solo S, Coro SATB/SATB, 2 Orch: 2 Vl, Va, Bc, [Ob]

De profundis is the result of Christoph Schönherr's intensive study of the last years of Franz Schubert's life and is intended as a "homage" to the great Romantic composer in the subtitle. Musical quo...

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...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

Mozart's "Missa in C major" K. 317, unfoundedly called the "Coronation Mass", is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works of its genre. The autograph of the mass, which is revealing...

Beethoven repeatedly described the Missa solemnis as his greatest work, which was intended to touch and move people "from the heart". The surviving sources reveal how intensively and for how long Beet...

Antonin Rejcha's "Te Deum" from 1825, which remained unpublished at the time and is presented here as a first edition, is undoubtedly one of the great, albeit little-known, Te Deum settings of the tra...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented a complete version of Mozart's Requiem. "Another version?" you might think, as there are now a whole series of other versions available al...

Filled with youthful brilliance, dramatic passion, and unmistakable melodic richness, Giacomo Puccini’s early masterpiece—the Messa a 4 voci con orchestra SC 6 (often celebrated as the Messa di Gloria...

In his roles as Kapellmeister at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and in the royal chapel of Louis XV, André Campra composed numerous grand motets, which often show stylistic influences from contemporary...

Date of composition of the wedding cantata on which this work is based (BWV 34a) 1726, the parody in the first half of the 1740s

Experienced organists in particular will enjoy this Bach cantata: A concerto by Bach, which has been lost in its original form and which he arranged for organ, is concealed in the opening movements of...

The soprano cantata "Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht" by Johann Sebastian Bach is intended for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on November 24, 1726 in the year of its first performance. It...

The first version of the Reformation cantata "Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott" BWV 80b, published for the first time in a practical edition by Carus-Verlag, remained unknown to Bach scholars until well...