Church Music for Orchestra

With the Jubilate Deo by the famous Viennese court conductor Salieri, an impressive and imaginative work from the treasure of the rich Austrian church music tradition appears in the first edition. Des...

These two previously-unpublished Psalm settings were written while Benjamin Britten was studying at the Royal College of Music in London but, despite encouragement from Ireland, Vaughan Williams and H...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

César Franck (1822-1890) is now regarded as one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. 'Les Béatitudes', his monumental oratorio setting the text from Jesus's Sermon on the...

With timpani and trumpets à la Marseillaise, a French piece of music conquered the public consciousness again in 1953 ("Eurovision anthem") and a composer was rediscovered: Marc-Antoine Charpentier's...

In seinem Passionsoratorium Christus am Ölberge gelang es Beethoven einerseits, an eine Tradition des 18. Jahrhunderts anzuknüpfen, andererseits aber auch die aufblühende Gattung des deutschsprachigen...

The Missa Sancti Josephi occupies a key position among Jan Dismas Zelenka's 20 or so large masses. In this mass, which was probably composed in 1732 for a saint's feast (therefore without a Credo), th...

Zu Unrecht ist Diabellis Kirchenmusik weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten, dabei schafft der österreichische Komponist der Biedermeierzeit in der 'Pastoral-Messe in F' den Spagat zwischen künstlerisch...

Anton Bruckner composed his first mass, the Mass in D minor, in 1864 in just four months. It was not ready in time for the Kaiser Franz Joseph I's birthday, as planned, but was first performed on 20 N...

Anton Bruckner composed the first of his three orchestral masses, the Mass in D minor, in just four months in 1864. Nevertheless, it was not completed for Emperor Franz Joseph I's birthday as planned,...

Bruckner's great "Mass in F minor" is one of the composer's - and 19th century choral music's - most important works. In a unique way, the composer succeeds here in musically penetrating the contents...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first one was dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression that Charles...

Weber's "Missa sancta No. 1" in E flat major is also known as the "Freischütz Mass", as he composed it in 1818 while working on the opera of the same name. The mass already enjoyed great popularity am...

In 1892, Dvorák received the honorable commission from New York to write a festive cantata for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. In response, Dvorák composed a...

The Te Deum from 1832, a large-scale festive work, impresses with its rapid changes of expression and warm orchestral colors. The 15-movement composition combines sonorous, sometimes eight-part choral...

The Te Deum from 1832, a large-scale festive work, impresses with its rapid changes of expression and warm orchestral colors. The 15-movement composition combines sonorous, sometimes eight-part choral...

Fassung für Sinfonieorchester - nicht lieferbar für Frankreich - Soli SBar, Coro SATB, 2 Fl, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, 4 Cor, 2 Tr, 3 Trb, Timp, Vl, 2 Va, 2 Vc, Cb, Arpa, Org

During his most productive period as an opera composer, Camille Saint-Saëns also wrote sacred works, of which the "Oratorio de Noël" (Christmas Oratorio) is particularly popular worldwide. The colorfu...

Biber's Requiem in F minor is amongst the most impressive settings of the Requiem Mass of the 17th century. The exact reason for the composition of the Requiem, which can be dated to 1692, is not know...

Anton Bruckner composed his Requiem in D minor at the young age of 24 in memory of a friend of his father's who was his patron. The work was greatly influenced by the Viennese classical style. He revi...

We know that the famous opera composers of the Italian bel canto also composed great sacred music, not least thanks to Verdi's Requiem or Puccini's Messa di Gloria, but most of these works still recei...

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...