Carus Piano Reductions: The Professional Choice for Vocal Scores

The music of Haydn's younger brother, which - although highly esteemed by his contemporaries - fell into oblivion in the 19th century, is still waiting to be rediscovered. Among his better-known works...

The extraordinary esteem in which Handel's contemporaries held the Brockes Passion oratorio is also reflected in the fact that none other than Johann Sebastian Bach copied the work. Even though Bach o...

Zur prachtvollen Eröffnung seiner Oratoriensaison Anfang 1736 präsentierte Händel eine Komposition, die ihm wie kaum ein anderes seiner oratorischen Werke die Gelegenheit zur Darstellung seiner musika...

The most famous choral movement of the oratorio now also as a single edition!

Der berühmteste Chorsatz des Oratoriums jetzt auch als Einzelausgabe!

Wissenschaftlich-kritische Ausgabe von Puccinis einziger Messe, nach dem Urtext der 'Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini'. Aufgrund des Vergleiches mit der autographen Partitur konnten i...

Wissenschaftlich-kritische Ausgabe von Puccinis einziger Messe, nach dem Urtext der 'Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini'. Aufgrund des Vergleiches mit der autographen Partitur konnten i...

Several elements contribute to the Christmassy character of this mass, which is characterized by its high level of compositional skill: creative devices such as triadic motifs, cradle symbolism as wel...

Frieden fängt im Kleinen an consists of eight songs that can be sung as part of a mass or in concert. The texts approach the concept of "home" from different perspectives, off the beaten track, and ex...

Buxtehude's numerous vocal compositions written for the performance in Lübeck's Marienkirche are stylistically very different. The cantata "So hat Gott die Welt geliebet" is a concerto for solo sopran...

Strangely enough, the cantata has survived with two texts. Of these, the second is certainly a parody, but possibly also the first. While the first text is clearly intended for Easter, the second has...

In his roles as Music Director at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and in the Royal Choir [chapel] of Louis XV, André Campra (1660-1744) composed numerous motets which frequently displayed the inf...

Ultimately, he is a pupil for whom I need not feel embarrassed,' wrote J. S. Bach, summarizing the qualities of his son-in-law to be, J. C. Altnickol. Altnickol's two settings of the Sanctus, based on...

Gounods Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne dArc was composed in 1887 for a festive mass in Reims to commemorate the arrival of the national heroine in the city on the occasion of the coronation of Charles V...

The best-known requiem mass before Mozart's unfinished Requiem was written by the opera composer Niccolò Jommelli, who was celebrated in his day. The Missa pro defunctis was composed in 1756 during hi...

In many performances of Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers of the Blessed Virgin the 'Lauda Jerusalem' and the Magnificat movements, which lie in a high tessitura, are transposed downwards. So that thes...

In many performances of Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers of the Virgin Mary, the rather high movements "Lauda Jerusalem" and the Magnificat are transposed downwards. In order to make this possible wit...

In many performances of Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers of the Blessed Virgin the 'Lauda Jerusalem' and the Magnificat movements, which lie in a high tessitura, are transposed downwards. So that thes...

In many performances of Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers of the Virgin Mary, the rather high movements "Lauda Jerusalem" and the Magnificat are transposed downwards. In order to make this possible wit...

This six-movement cantata uses the hymn of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch, first recorded in 1698 in the Darmstädter Liederbuch. This places it amongst those chorale cantatas which use a hymn from...

For soli (SATB), choir (SATB) 2 oboes, 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo. Bach's chorale cantata 'Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren' BWV 137, has long been, thanks...