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Cyrill Schürch's Missa brevis lives above all from its musical versatility. From a fughetta in the Kyrie to the Gloria with its dialog between the solo voice and choir, which is characterized by the f...

André Campra's Requiem from 1695 is one of the first major settings of the funeral liturgy in France. It was composed during his time as Kapellmeister at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris as a commissione...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, [3 Trb, Org]

Of Dittersdorf's 19 surviving masses, the present work (first edition by Carus) enjoyed particular popularity during the composer's lifetime, including a performance at the imperial coronation of Fran...

Since the days of the Renaissance composers, there has been - beyond accusations of plagiarism - the veneration of a great composer colleague in the form of quotations or even new versions of his work...

Since its first complete performance in Bremen Cathedral in 1868, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem has undisputedly been one of the key works in the history of oratorio. The work's status results not onl...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor, Vne, Org

Anton Bruckners 'Te Deum' - ein Höhepunkt im Schaffen des Komponisten und eines der bedeutendsten Werke der geistlichen Chorliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts - wird hier in einer modernen wissenschaftlic...

Anton Bruckners 'Te Deum' - ein Höhepunkt im Schaffen des Komponisten und eines der bedeutendsten Werke der geistlichen Chorliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts - wird hier in einer modernen wissenschaftlic...

A center of the cultivation of polyphonic offertory settings and the multi-movement offertory concerto, which developed into one of the main genres of Catholic church music in southern Germany, was Sa...

Besetzung: Solo Bar (Hiskia), B (Jesaja), Bar (Obermundschenk, der Stellvertreter des Großkönigs Sanherib), S (Bote Jesajas), S (Magd), T (Erzähler), Coro S(S)A(A)T(T)B(B), Fl, Sopran-Sax/Alt-Sax (1 S...

Soli TB, Coro SATB, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, 2 Cor, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

In addition to the Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, another representative work was composed for the festive season of the church year in 1734/35: the Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 ("Praise God in his riches")...

The opening movement of Bach's choral cantata on Luther's "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir" BWV 38 for the 21st Sunday after Trinity in 1724 belongs to a group of cantatas whose opening chorus is not...

As part of his third Leipzig cantata cycle, Bach performed the Ascension cantata "Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen" on May 30, 1726. Its text is included in the collection "Sonn- und Fest-Tags-Andachten ü...

The cantata BWV 44 from Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle, the earlier of two compositions of the same name, was probably first performed on Sunday Exaudi in May 1724. The text deals with the themes...

The opening chorus of the cantata "Schauet doch und sehet" BWV 46 is one of those movements by Bach that is primarily known in its later guise: its first part became the "Qui tollis" of the Mass in B...

The cantata "Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden" BWV 47 for the 17th Sunday after Trinity belongs to a whole series of cantatas with obbligato organ, most of which were composed in t...

The cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity belongs to Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle and was performed for the first time on October 3, 1723. The text by an unknown poet is based on the Sunday...

Reconstruction of the presumed original version by Reinhold Kubik

The cantata Ich freue mich in dir was performed for the first time in Bach's second year in office, on Christmas Day 1724, and is part of the so-called choral cantata cycle. At the heart of the compos...

Version in A major (version in G major under Carus 31.182/50). The cantata Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (BWV 182) occupies a special place in Johann Sebastian Bach's life story. Active as an organist...

reconstructed version (2001) This edition is a revised edition of the St. Mark Passion of 1723, published in 1964 by Diethard Hellmann and reconstructed according to parody models, with a new preface...

Volume IV, 1 of the C.P.E. Bach Complete Edition, published by the Packard Humanities Institute "...at all times, in and outside the church, solely for the praise of God, and indeed without offense f...

Of the three oratorios that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed as music director in Hamburg, The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus, with its magnificent trumpet and timpani sounds and grateful chora...