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With a musically convincing and in many respects highly original interpretation of the liturgical text, Herzogenberg's mass represents a final highlight in the late Romantic repertoire of the "Missa s...

Józef Swider, a native of Poland, has written more than 250 compositions for choirs, which enjoy great popularity. Today he is considered the most frequently performed Polish composer. His richly orch...

Nicolai's only surviving mass is one of his most important contributions to church music. It is characterized by its varied structure and good singing quality. It therefore offers many choirs a real a...

The Carus program on Dresden court music continues with the first edition of one of the great masses (No. 9, D major) by Johann David Heinichen, the most important musical representative of the Saxon...

Giacomo Carissimi, the first grand master of the oratorio and author of numerous concertante motets and Italian bel canto solo cantatas, also composed several masses. The Missa concertata in C for 2 t...

Following the great success of his "Magnificat", the internationally sought-after pop and jazz choir composer Christoph Schönherr has presented another work for Carus with his MISSA in tempore incerto...

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) is best known today as an opera composer and as the composition teacher of Giacomo Puccini and Pietro Mascagni. His greatest success came in 1876 at La Scala in Milan w...

Mozart and Haydn greatly appreciated the church music of their friend and Viennese court conductor Joseph Eybler. The Missa Sancti Alberti with its lyrical, pastoral tone stands in contrast to his mas...

Eberlin's programmatic setting of the offertory "Terra tremuit" was composed for the festive liturgy of Easter Sunday at Salzburg Cathedral, which was a center of polyphonic offertory settings in the...

Giuseppe Verdi's Te Deum for double choir and large orchestra is the most frequently performed part of his Quattro pezzi sacri and his penultimate work, composed in 1895/1896. Verdi dealt intensively...

Among the sacred compositions by Carl Heinrich Graun, the long-serving court conductor of Frederick II in Berlin, two works have acquired a prominent status: the passion cantata Der Tod Jesu from 1755...

Bobbi Fischer's "Magnificat" builds a musical bridge between Europe and South America. His setting of Mary's song of praise from the Gospel of Luke draws on the abundance of Afro-Caribbean rhythms. We...

The Stabat Mater is Giuseppe Verdi's last work. The composer completed it in 1897 at the age of 84. A year later, the Stabat Mater appeared in print together with the slightly older Te Deum as part of...

The Requiem in F minor op. 146 is one of Franz Lachner's most important works. The composer, who lived in Vienna for a long time, developed into a "classicist romantic" there, merging classical form,...

Among Verdi's numerous compositions, the Messa da Requiem remains unique as a work of sacred music. It was composed as a musical memorial to the Italian national poet Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi de...

The Berlin choirmaster and music teacher Michael Betzner-Brandt is known as a particularly creative mind in the choral scene - for example through his "I can't sing" choirs. In order to be able to sin...

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is the key work among the French master's sacred compositions. The work was already a success with the public during the composer's lifetime and remains so to this day. Due to...

A valuable addition to the requiem repertoire: Biber's Requiem in F minor is one of the most impressive settings of the requiem mass of the 17th century. The specific occasion for the composition of t...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...

Puccini's first known work of church music was composed during his school days at the "Istituto Pacini" in Lucca and was premiered there in 1877; he chose a Latin hymn to the patron saint of Lucca as...

For this work carus music the choir app, is available. In addition to the vocal score and a recording, the app offers a coach which helps to learn the choral parts. Please find more information at www...

Monteverdi's "Vespers of Mary" has found its way into today's musical practice like hardly any other work of the 17th century. However, the "Vespers of Mary" also presents us with many puzzles. The so...

Anyone who has Bruckner's symphonies and well-known great masses in their ears will be amazed when they hear his "Missa solemnis" from 1854: can the tradition of Viennese Classicism still be so clearl...

A mass composition by a young Viennese composer: in 1760, at the age of 16, Marianna von Martines (1744-1812) composed her "Seconda Messa". Just one year later, another mass from her pen was performed...