Classical Sheet Music for Orchestra

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Friedrich Schneider's second oratorio Das Weltgericht was an immediate success at its 1820 premiere in Leipzig. The initial triumph of the work, which the appearance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus o...

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

Orchestration: oboe, strings and b.c.

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...

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...

Sir Eugene Goossens' arrangement of the famous Hallelujah from Messiah for choir and full symphony orchestra has been a favorite of many orchestras worldwide since the material became first available....

Franz Schubert's famous Ave Maria arranged by Mark Armstrong for voice and small orchestra (Fl, Ob, Hn, Hp, Strings).

Zum 270. Geburtstag des Klassikkomponisten Justin Heinrich Knecht erscheint dessen 'Magnificat' beim Strube Verlag als Erstausgabe, basierend auf dem Originalmanuskript der Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Kn...

Robert Sieving's arrangement of Allegro for Double String Orchestra by Antonio Vivaldi, RV593, originally a motet featuring the vocal setting of Psalm 69 for soprano, 2 oboes, 2 SATB choirs, and doubl...

Edward Curtis, the great American photographer, traveled the American West during the early decades of the 20th century, taking literally of tens of thousands of photographs of Native Americans, chron...

BENEATH CALM WATERS is a cinematic tone poem evoking the scene of a gigantic sea creature rising from the depths below to wreak havoc on an ill-fated cruise ship passing through its domain. Below the...

This work was inspired by the great Alexios Komnenos, emperor of Byzantium during 1081 to 1095. During the first crusade, he fought and won several battles, marking his brilliant mind for strategy and...