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Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach scored a real hit with his "Passion Cantata". The work was already so popular during Bach's lifetime that there were public calls for an annual performance. Bach himself is s...

Die Choralkantate Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn entstand vermutlich 1771 und greift eine Dichtung von Johann Georg Albinus über den 6. Psalm auf. Die sieben Strophen der Vorlage werden in sieben Sät...

Justin Heinrich Knecht's compositional interpretation of Moses Mendelssohn's poetic translation of Psalm 6 carries the fire of enlightened thought in music. Effective orchestration, targeted use of ch...

The ambitious late work of Georg Philipp Telemann, consciously dedicated to vocal composition, begins with the Donner-Ode (1756/1760). As a symbol thunder represents the forces of nature, here in clos...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bachs St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accuse...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accus...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accus...

Mozarts Missa in C-Dur KV 317, unbegründeterweise Krönungsmesse genannt, zählt zu den beliebtesten und am meisten aufgeführten Werken ihrer Gattung. Das in vieler Hinsicht aufschlussreiche Autograph d...

Joseph Haydns oratorio Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze is probably one of the most frequently performed settings of music for Good Friday. Haydn set these Seven Words in a dramatic...

Saul for the first time in the version conducted by Handel himself. Saul is one of Handel's most dramatic oratorios. More than in almost any other oratorio, its stirring drama demonstrates its proximi...

Im Frühjahr 1816 vollendete der gerade neunzehnjährige Franz Schubert sein zweites 'Stabat Mater', inmitten einer Zeit höchster Produktivität. Im Gegensatz zur ersten, nur fünfminütigen Komposition au...

The piano reduction of the 4th and 5th movements of Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony, prepared by Nicholas Kok, is aimed specifically at vocal soloists and choral singers who wish to rehearse and perform...

This piano reduction of the 4th and 5th movements by Nicholas Kok, which is available for purchase alongside a choral score, is aimed specifically at vocal soloists and choral singers who wish to rehe...

The cantata "A child is born to us" for Christmas Day follows an unusual structure with only one aria but two choral movements. The choral movements frame the work, with the soprano aria, surrounded b...

Johann Heinrich Rolle was born in 1716 in Quedlinburg. In 1752 he was appointed music director of the city of Magedburg. The cantata 'Siehe Finsternis bedeckt das Erdreich und Dunkel der Völker' was w...

Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his Elegischer Gesang ("Sanft wie du lebtest") to the memory of Eleonore Pasqualati, the wife of his long-time friend and patron Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati z...

Erstausgabe nach den Klosterneuburger Stimmen. Bisher hatte man angenommen, die Messe in G sei in ihrer Originalgestalt nur mit Streichern und Orgel besetzt. Die sensationelle Entdeckung eines weitere...

Christian Ehregott Weinlig has created a three-movement cantata for mixed choir and orchestra that can be performed very well in both church services and concerts. The introductory movement is compose...

Beethoven's Meeres Stille und Glückliche Fahrt op. 112 for four-part mixed choir and symphonic orchestra - the setting of a pair of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - defies clear genre classificat...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Buxtehude's numerous vocal compositions written for performance in Lübeck's Marienkirche are stylistically very different. The cantata "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied" on the first verses of Psalm 98...