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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...

For soli (SATB), choir (SATB) 2 oboes d'amore, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo. The text of Bach's cantata 'Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort' was published in 1715, that is during Bach's Weimar period, in...

Bach's cantata 'My God alone this heart possesses' BWV 169 is from his third annual cantata cycle in Leipzig; it was first performed on 20 October 1726 for the 18th Sunday after Trinity. As recent res...

Bring the festive radiance of the Baroque Christmas tradition to your choir with the four famous insertion movements to Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243a. These artful movements ("Vom Himme...

The Ascension Cantata 'Du Lebensfürst, Herr Jesu Christ' BuxWV 22 by Dieterich Buxtehude is based on five verses of the hymn of thanksgiving of the same name by Johann Rist (1641), and in formal terms...

As with many of Homilius' cantatas, the unusual formal structure of the cantata "Kommt, frohe Völker, herzu" for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, with two choral movements in a cantata of only three mov...

Special scorings inspired Telemann's imagination. In the cantata "Herr, lehre uns bedenken" from 1720, he combined the opening chorus and the two arias with concertante parts for a viola d'amore. Howe...

Georg Philipp Telemann has long been perceived as a composer of sacred music, and particularly of the German-language church cantata. However, in the course of his long life he also composed church wo...