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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...

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...

Coro SATB, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, 2 Cor, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, [3 Trb, Org]

Besetzung: Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Fg/Cb, Org Sprache: lateinisch

En fin. He is an ecolier of whom I must not be ashamed, is how J. S. Bach summarized the qualities of his later son-in-law J. C. Altnickol. Among the few surviving works by Altnickol are two Sanctus o...

Gounod's "Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc" was composed in 1887 for a festive mass in Reims to commemorate the entry of the national heroine into the city on the occasion of the coronation of Charl...

Bach was unable to use the Weimar Advent cantata "Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht" BWV 186a in Leipzig, as church music was silent there between 1 Advent and Christmas. Bach expanded and revised the cantat...

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

Great baroque church music full of color and imagery! "Sing to the Lord a new song! Shout for joy, praise the Lord with harps, drums and trumpets! Let nature also join in, let the sea roar, let the ea...

Michael Haydn composed three of his masses in honor of the holy archangels: the "Michaelis", the "Gabrielis" and the "Raphaelismesse" presented here. With its lack of vocal soloists, it belongs to the...

Max Bruch's "Rorate coeli" is an impressive setting of the well-known Advent text "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf". In an extremely sophisticated compositional style, Bruch combines the two orchestral...

The composer Albert Lortzing is best known today for his comic operas such as Zar und Zimmermann and Der Waffenschmied. But he also wrote sacred music. In 1822 - under the impression of the performanc...

Thunder as a symbol of the merciless and uncontrollable forces of nature: The composition of Telemann's "Donner-Ode" is closely linked to the traumatic earthquake in Lisbon in 1755. The characteristic...

In the spring of 1816, the nineteen-year-old Franz Schubert completed his second "Stabat Mater" in the midst of a period of great productivity. In contrast to the first composition from the previous y...

Johann Heinricht Rolle was born in Quedlinburg in 1716. He was appointed music director of the town of Magedburg in 1752. The cantata "Siehe Finsternis, bedeckt das Erdreich und Dunkel der Völker" is...

One of Gabriel Fauré's most popular compositions is his Pavane. It is less well known that this stylized dance, which today is often only performed in the orchestral version or in various instrumental...

Im Zentrum von Hartmut Heins Kantate steht die Frage 'Wozu sind wir auf Erden?'. Die Suche des Menschen nach dem Sinn seines Lebens wird in einem 'Frage- und Antwortspiel' dargestellt, bei dem sowohl...