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A "Motetto pastorale" replaced the offertory of the Christmas masses between Credo and Sanctus in the Dresden court services. "O admirabile mysterium" is characterized by an unusual scoring for two so...

Immediately after his first opera, Rheinberger composed a short dramatic cantata for children's voices in 1863. It is based on a story from the Gospel of Mark. The highlights of the cantata, including...

Evening-length oratorio, compiled for the Bach Festival 1950 by Hans Grischkat using particularly valuable movements from Bach's lesser-known cantatas.

Version Koch - Bei der Aufführung der Markuspassion besteht die Schwierigkeit im Fehlen des Evangelienberichts. Johannes H. E. Koch hat diesen in seiner Tonsprache ergänzt. Bislang lag allerdings nur...

Since its Berlin premiere in 1755, Carl Heinrich Graun's "sensitive" passion cantata "Der Tod Jesu", based on a libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler, was one of the most frequently performed works of this...

At the center of Hartmut Hein's cantata is the question "Why are we on earth?". Man's search for the meaning of his life is presented in a "question and answer game" in which both biblical demands (e....

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...