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The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did n...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

Turning one's energy to sacred music remains the artist's highest goal, wrote Robert Schumann in January 1851 - even though he had hardly appeared as a composer of sacred music up to that point. In fa...

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...

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...

Practice-oriented Urtext edition based on the current state of Bach research With compact critical report Interpretation aids for articulation by marking analogous passages in the score Each era hear...

Practice-oriented Urtext edition based on the current state of Bach research With compact critical report Interpretation aids for articulation by marking analogous passages in the score Each era hear...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio in the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

After his early departure from the opera stage in 1829, Gioachino Rossini only composed larger-scale sacred music in addition to chamber music. This included the "Stabat Mater", which was composed in...

With "Organ Music for Weddings" and "Organ Music for Christmas", Bärenreiter has already published two very successful collections for part-time and full-time church musicians and organists. The new v...

In these short and impressive variations on the Hungarian Passion chorale "Du schöner Lebensbaum des Paradieses" (EG 96) you will find the ideal music for concerts or Passion devotions, especially at...

Cavalleria Rusticana is Mascagni's most popular opera. 'Intermezzo' is the instrumental interlude that accompanies villagers leaving an Easter service. This operatic gem brings relief to the tensions...

Celebrating 25 years, Alfred's recently acquired Carnaval project is an epic collection of eleven solos, crafted by Hunsberger himself for Wynton Marsalis. Translated, 'The Carnival of Venice' celebra...

Celebrating 25 years, Alfred's recently acquired Carnaval project is an epic collection of eleven solos, crafted by Hunsberger himself for Wynton Marsalis. Translated, 'The Carnival of Venice' celebra...

Moving between major and mixolydian mode, this artistic piece sounds as fresh as the lyrics about the change in seasons. Eighth notes, accidentals, hand-crossings, and use of pedal are sprinkled freel...