Church Music for Orchestra

Psalm settings inspired Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy throughout his entire creative life. With Psalm 95 MWV A 16 ("Kommt, laßt uns anbeten"), he composed one of his most impressive and magnificent orch...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

The Missa Gratias agimus tibi by Jan Disma Zelenka was composed in 1730, a little before the Missa Sancti Josephi (Carus 27.082), and is thus already close to Zelenka's late style. As a festive mass,...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

Haydn's composition is characterized by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. The work was originally conceived as a purely instrumental composition - as meditation music i...

SATB Soli, Chor und Orchester mit Orgel

The Missa Dei Patris ZWV 19 was composed in 1740 and ranks among the later works of the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. It opens an incompletely transmitted cycle of six masses which the compose...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's radiant Missa brevis et solemnis in C major, K. 259, famously known as the "Organ Solo Mass", is one of the most charming masterpieces of the Viennese Classical era. Despite...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...

The Frankfurt composer and professor of composition Kurt Hessenberg (1908-1994), together with Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler, ranks among the most important representatives of Protestant church music...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold komponierte lediglich zwei genuin religiöse Werke: den Passover Psalm für Sopran, gemischten Chor, Orgel und Orchester op. 30 sowie Prayer für Tenor, Frauenchor, Harfe und Orge...

Experience one of the most timeless classics of sacred music in a magnificent orchestration: the moving "Ave Maria" for solo voice and orchestra, published by Editions Marc Reift, touches heart and so...

Experience pure emotion and sublime sonic beauty with the touching »Ave Maria« in the version by Libera. Published by the renowned Editions Marc Reift, this masterpiece of sacred vocal music unfolds a...

SOLO for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, F-Eb Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Violin, Viola or Violoncello.

Bring electrifying energy, deep emotion, and spiritual brilliance to the concert stage: The "Gospel Suite" for orchestra, published by Editions Marc Reift, combines the unmistakable charm of tradition...