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

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...

BA 5103-90 replaces the previous vocal score. The article number remains unchanged. > The text appears in slightly larger type size and a clearly legible font. > The pagination has been adopted from t...

Unlike Bach's other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the St. John Passion. The first version of 1724 which is today's standard version represents a mixture of different reading...

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 performance material is derived from the scholarly-critical editions of the 'Das Erbe deutscher Musik'' series, on which the informative Preface and Critical Report were based. The new piano-vocal...

Messiah' occupies a unique position in Handel's work. Its strongly universal character and directness of expression, which appeal to men of all creeds, make it the most renowned work in the whole of t...

The 'Messiah' occupies a unique position in Handel's work. It is one of the most renowned works of this composer's monumental output. It has often been said that Handel composed the 'Messiah' for his...

Based on the Urtext of the "Halle Handel Edition" Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) Includes the version of the premiere as well as two further performable versions Practical, easy-to-play piano reduction...

Drame lyrique in three acts and a prologue (1779) Libretto: Louis-Théodore Baron de Tschudi (after "Narcissos ed Eco" from Ovid's Metamorfosi) (French) Premiere: September 24, 1779, Paris, Opéra (Pala...

The Missa Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 21 is Zelenka's last mass setting. It contains three extended arias (one each for soprano, alto and tenor), concertante choruses and unusually expressive choral fugues....

The Missa Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 21 is Zelenka's last mass setting. It contains three extended arias (one each for soprano, alto and tenor), concertante choruses and unusually expressive choral fugues....

In Georg Philipp Telemann’s opera “Orpheus”, the focus is not on Eurydice, but on Queen Orasia, who is inflamed with mad but unrequited love for the legendary singer. The first documented performance...

The opera “Dido and Aeneas”, a recount of the well-known story from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, has established itself as a favourite with the public. This is due to the skill of composer Henry Purcel...

Les Boréades was actually intended to be performed at the Théâtre de Choisy in Paris in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years' War to celebrate the conclusion of peace. However, after two rehearsals with...

It tells the love story between Fatima, who is accused of murdering her father, and the king's son Ramire, who is in love with her and frees her from the captivity of his father Alphonse, the King of...

It tells the love story between Fatime, accused of murdering her father, and the king's son Ramire, who is in love with her and frees her from the captivity of his father Alphonse, the King of Castile...

Released to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the work’s premiere, the choral score of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 provides choral singers with a lightweight and practical edition that con...

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...

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 vocal score of Henry Purcell's famous opera 'Dido and Aeneas' is based on the Bärenreiter Urtext edition of the full score. As its main source served the Tatton Park manuscript (National Trust), w...

The new edition of the "Indes galantes" within the "Opera Omnia Rameau" (OOR IV.2, 7) restores in the main part of the score the version as authorized by Rameau in 1736. This fundamental editorial dec...

With its detailed scene directions and many short forms such as accompagnato recitatives and ariosi, "Belshazzar" is the most dramatic of George Frideric Handel's oratorios. In fact, it is even a sacr...

George Frideric Handel is regarded as the first and most important English representative of the oratorio genre. The Messiah in particular is regarded as the epitome of sacred music and is also one of...