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Die Bauernkantate BWV 212 ist in Bachs Kantatenschaffen sowohl inhaltlich als auch musikalisch ein echtes Unikat. Zwar gehört sie zu Bachs Huldigungskantaten, doch handelt der Text nur indirekt vom Lo...

The Codex Buranus, the famous collection of medieval poems and dramatic texts from Benediktbeuern Monastery, still contains many intriguing secrets today. Who wrote the texts, for which occasions, and...

An absolutely thrilling setting of the mass, influenced by Latin jazz, for large chorus, big band, and baritone. The composer takes as his theme people's deep-seated fear and its overcoming through fa...

In seinem Passionsoratorium Christus am Ölberge gelang es Beethoven einerseits, an eine Tradition des 18. Jahrhunderts anzuknüpfen, andererseits aber auch die aufblühende Gattung des deutschsprachigen...

Biber's Requiem in F minor is amongst the most impressive settings of the Requiem Mass of the 17th century. The exact reason for the composition of the Requiem, which can be dated to 1692, is not know...

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...

Bachs Johannespassion gehört zu den grossartigsten Passionsvertonungen der Musikgeschichte. Sie erlebte zu Bachs Lebzeiten mehrere grundlegende Umgestaltungen. Carus bietet alle erhaltenen Fassungen....

Missa Cellensis in honorem BVM. Cäcilienmesse - Als Joseph Haydn 1766, nach dem Tod seines Vorgängers Gregor Joseph Werner, die Leitung der Esterházy-Kapelle übernahm, begann er mit der Komposition se...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, Cfg, 2 Cor, 3 Trb, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb, Cemb Der neuen Carus-Urtextausgabe liegt als Hauptquelle der Partitur-Erstdruck von 1800 zu Grunde. Haydn hatt...

Der 'Actus tragicus' oder 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' BWV 106 zählt zu Bachs bekanntesten und am meisten geschätzten Werken mit bis heute ungebrochener Resonanz - ein 'Geniewerk, wie es auch...

„Der geistlichen Musik die Kraft zuzuwenden, bleibt ja wohl das höchste Ziel des Künstlers“, schreibt Robert Schumann im Januar 1851 - und das, obwohl er bis dato kaum als Komponist geistlicher Musik...

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...

Die vorliegende Ausgabe ermöglicht die Aufführung der Kantate in den verschiedenen von Bach praktizierten Besetzungsformen. Bei den Besetzungsangaben zu den Solopartien für hohe Stimme ist jeweils zue...

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...

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...

Antonio Lotti was employed at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice for almost his entire life. In 1717, however, he was lured for two years to Dresden by the Saxon court as a composer of operas. A score of h...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

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Das 'Requiem in c' von Johann Michael Haydn hatte großen Einfluss auf W. A. Mozarts Requiem-Vertonung. In nur zwei Wochen komponierte J. M. Haydn sein Werk im Dezember 1771 anlässlich des Todes seines...

The history of the genesis of the Requiem is entwined with legends and anecdotes. The burdens of the composition and performance of La Clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte, and an acute infection led...

Händels Utrechter Te Deum HWV 278 begeisterte schon bei seiner ersten Aufführung die Londoner Zuhörer und tut dies noch heute in den Konzertsälen und Kirchen weltweit. Es erklang zum ersten Mal in ein...

César Franck (1822-1890) is now regarded as one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. 'Les Béatitudes', his monumental oratorio setting the text from Jesus's Sermon on the...

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...