Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Orchestra

The present Laudate Dominum RV 614 is written for solo soprano and alto, mixed chorus, 2 violins, 2 horns and organ continuo though Vivaldi usually writes his music for four string parts (2 violins, v...

The present Laudate Dominum RV 614 is written for solo soprano and alto, mixed chorus, 2 violins, 2 horns and organ continuo though Vivaldi usually writes his music for four string parts (2 violins, v...

In the almost six months from 14 August 1736 to 27 January 1737, George Frideric Handel had achieved unprecedented productivity in his operatic oeuvre with the composition of three operas. In addition...

Volume 14 of Series III (Church Music) of the Halle Handel Edition contains two anthems which Handel composed in 1749 and which are his last contributions to the genre of the English anthem. He perfor...

'Pigmalion' was the first example of a one-act ballet, preceded by an overture, composed specifically for the Académie royale de musique. With this work, Rameau turned to the form of the petit opéra....

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

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...

The musicologist Malcolm Bruno created a new reconstruction of the work on the basis of the funeral ode BWV 198, which has since been established as a parody model. Welcome Comeback Bach's St. John an...

for soli (SATB), mixed choir and orchestra

Every note and word comes from J.S. Bach. The notes are from BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, with texts from BWV 140 Wachet Auf. Together it makes this accessible Bach masterpiece appropria...

This arrangement of 'O Jesulein süss', a chorale first written by German composer Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) and later arranged and popularized by J. S. Bach, sets an English text translated by Percy...

A splendid curtain-raiser to Vivaldi's Gloria, Francesco Durante's artful Magnificat has long been misattributed to his pupil Pergolesi in a version for four voices, not five. Durante's vocally richer...

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...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Klavier, Piccolo-Flöte, Flöte, Blockflöte, Oboe, Horn, Klarinette, Sopran-Saxophon, Alt-Saxophon, Tenor-Saxophon, Bariton-Saxophon, Fagott, Contra Fagott, Trompete, Kornett, Euphonium, Tuba, Violin, V...

A theorist, historian and teacher with great prerogatives, Stanislao Mattei also had a considerable career as a composer; it took place first in S. Francesco, succeeding Father Giambattista Martini in...

The opera Cleofide by Johann Adolf Hasse was part of an ambitious plan to revive the art of Italian opera at the Saxon court. The dramatic plot – about Alexander the Great’s conquests in India – is br...