Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra

In 1733, the emergence of a rival opera company led George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) to seek a new audience by writing English-language oratorios. ISRAEL IN EGYPT, HWV 54, serves as one of the fines...

In 1733, the emergence of a rival opera company led George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) to seek a new audience by writing English-language oratorios. ISRAEL IN EGYPT, HWV 54, serves as one of the fines...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) likely composed three settings of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo, though only two have survived. It was common for Vivaldi to write introductory motets to be performed bef...

Kuhnau’s setting of the 98th psalm Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied is a sonorous cantata with the opulent scoring of two trumpets, timpani and a five-part string section. This baroque gem radiates a s...

“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...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) first set the text of the Magnificat, BWV 243, in 1723 after taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but in the key of E-flat. This original version (cataloged...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...

Über die Entstehungszeit der Kantate Lobe den Herren, meine Seele kann nur gemutmaßt werden. Mehrere Indizien sprechen jedoch für eine frühe Entstehung, möglicherweise noch während Kuhnaus Aufenthalt...