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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed his Latin Sanctus in E flat in the years 1768-1778, when he was music director at the churches in Hamburg. The short and solemn work for choir and orchestra was inte...

Third version, premiered in Leipzig around 1747. First version available under 35.304/00. The St. Mark Passion, which was probably composed in the first decade of the 18th century by an unknown compo...

Homilius' oratorio passions are among the last compositions of this type from the 18th century. The role of the choir in the oratorio passions is largely limited to the chorales and folk choruses; onl...

Er war ohne Widerrede unser größter Kirchenkomponist, so schrieb der Lexikograph E. L. Gerber wenige Jahre nach Homilius’ Tod 1785. Als langjähriger Kreuzkantor hatte der Bach-Schüler Homilius aufgrun...

After the Passion cantata "Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld" from 1775, the Christmas Oratorio is the second major vocal work by Homilius to be published in print during his lifetime. With an un...

Gottfried August Homilius was one of the last composers of the 18th century who, in addition to the then more popular Passion oratorio on fully composed texts, continued to compose passions using the...

Gottfried August Homilius' cantatas enjoyed immense popularity in their day. They have survived to this day in sources from all over the German-speaking Protestant world - from Switzerland to the Balt...

The cantatas by Gottfried August Homilius are an integral part of Protestant music in the period after 1750. They enjoyed great popularity in large parts of German-speaking Europe and Homilius enjoyed...

The cantata "Auf, auf, ihr Herzen, seid bereit" for the fourth Sunday in Advent was certainly composed during Homilius' time as Dresden Kreuzkantor between 1755 and 1785, but cannot be dated more prec...

Homilius is known for his constant search for new forms for his cantatas in order to avoid any schematism. Thus, there are no arias in this cantata. Two choral groups are introduced in the opening cho...

2014 not only marks the 300th birthday of Gottfried August Homilius, but also the 475th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation in Homilius' native Saxony. To mark both celebrations togethe...

A child is born to us is one of Telemann's most beautiful Christmas cantatas, with an opening duet for two sopranos reminiscent of Polish-Moravian folklore and two weighty choral movements. The horns...

Werkverzeichnis: TVWV 9 :15 Besetzung: Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Bc Sprache: lateinisch Dauer: 7 min

Telemann's setting of the 121st Psalm betrays his admiration for French music. Modeled on a grand motet, it takes up French patterns in all movements: the overture model in the first movement, chaconn...

Thanks to its misattribution to Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 219), the Michaeliskantate Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann experienced an unusually early renaissance...

The cantata cycle "The Times of Day", composed in Hamburg in 1757, is one of Georg Philipp Telemann's outstanding late works. A symphony and four cantatas (each with aria, accompagnato, aria and choru...

With well-known Advent and Christmas carols in a variety of original movements, with a children's choir for the shepherds' scene and with congregational hymns integrated into the sequence, Herzogenber...

The composer's lively early work, written in 1822, already reveals its own style, but at the same time refers to the work of the same name by his lifelong role model J. S. Bach.

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For this work carus music the choir app, is available. In addition to the vocal score and a recording, the app offers a coach which helps to learn the choral parts. Please find more information at www...

Johann Adam Hiller's Psalm 100 "Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt" can be regarded as the highlight of his church music oeuvre. During the composer's lifetime, the work was performed far beyond Germany as...

Venetian version The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl'Incurabili in Venice. As this was a musical training center for talented girls and young women, the vocal pa...

The new critical Carus edition is the first edition ever to be based on the two autographs that Mozart made separately for movements 1-6 and 7-8. The fact that the edition contains two additional orig...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

The 100th Psalm by Max Reger is one of the choral-symphonic works of the great style of classical modernism. Polyphonic artistry in the tradition of Bach is combined with contrasting and overwhelming...