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Haydn's composition is characterized by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. The work was originally conceived as a purely instrumental composition - as meditation music i...

Seit den Tagen der Renaissancekomponisten gibt es - jenseits von Plagiatsvorwürfen - die Verehrung eines großen Komponistenkollegen in Form von Zitaten oder gar von Neufassungen seiner Werke. Kein ger...

Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae - Haydns sogenannte Große Orgelsolomesse in Es-Dur zählt zu jenen Werken des Komponisten, die schon früh eine ausgesprochen weite Verbreitung fanden. Die i...

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A special mass for a special occasion: Giovanni Alberti Ristori's (Christmas) Messa per il Santissimo Natale. From 1715 to 1753, Ristori rose to the position of Vice-Kapellmeister at the Electoral Sax...

Mendelssohn described the work, composed in 1840, to his friend Klingemann: "a symphony for choir and orchestra ... First 3 symphonic movements, followed by 12 choral and solo movements; the words fro...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Oratorio de Noël for five vocal solos, mixed choir, strings, organ and harp in 1858. The work, which is sung in Latin, is based on texts from the Old and New Testament...

Psalm texts inspired Mendelssohn throughout his career, and he left behind five large orchestral psalms in addition to a cappella movements. In 1837, Schumann described Psalm 42 as "the highest level...

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...

Gustav Mahler composed many large-scale works. But in the summer of 1906, he surpassed himself with the 8th Symphony. He himself described this exceptional work in terms of form, shape, size and succe...

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...

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...

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...

A mass composition by a young Viennese composer: in 1760, at the age of 16, Marianna von Martines (1744-1812) composed her "Seconda Messa". Just one year later, another mass from her pen was performed...

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...

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...