Carus Piano Reductions: The Professional Choice for Vocal Scores

Two things are essentially new: the involvement of the congregation through communal singing and, secondly, the frequent use of the main organ - both in the accompaniment of the congregational chorale...

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returned to Salzburg from his trip to Paris in January 1779, the only work of church music he had in his luggage was an unfinished Kyrie in E flat major (K. 296a) together...

Michael Haydn composed three of his masses in honor of the holy archangels - St Michael, St Gabriel, and the Raphaelismesse in honor of St Raphael now published. By avoiding the use of vocal soloists,...

Max Bruch succeeded in composing an impressive setting of the well known Advent text, 'O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf' (O Saviour, tear open the heavens). Compositionally it is extremely sophisticated...

Brahms' elegy Nänie op. 82, based on the poem by Friedrich von Schiller, was composed in 1880/81 following the death of the painter Anselm Feuerbach, whom Brahms greatly admired. In contrast with the...

Today best known for his comic operas such as Zar und Zimmermann and Der Waffenschmied, Albert Lortzing was also a composer of sacred music. In 1822, inspired by the performances of great choral symph...

Carus-Verlag is now publishing this early work by Camille Saint-Saëns in a critical new edition. Among the sacred works by Saint-Saëns there are just two settings of the mass: the 'Messe de Requiem''...

Unter den gut 20 großen Messen von Jan Dismas Zelenka kommt der Missa Sancti Josephi eine Schlüsselstellung zu. In der vermutlich 1732 für ein Heiligenfest (deshalb ohne Credo) komponierten Messe grei...

Shining rays stream from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first people were dazzled, then bewitched, then overcome.' This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns described the impression made on him b...

In 1892 Dvorák received a prestigious commission from New York to write a festive cantata to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery of America. In response he wrote an im...

During his most productive period as an opera composer, Camille Saint-Saëns also wrote sacred works, among which his Oratorio de Noël has enjoyed great worldwide popularity. The colorful and opulently...

Composed in 1727 for a 'eulogy and funeral oration' for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in the Leipzig University church, the music for the funeral ode is well-known today above all through reconstru...

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...