Easter Music for Soloists, Mixed Choir (SATB) and Orchestra: Splendor

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

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...

Like most of his works, Johann Sebastian Bach's "St. John Passion" has not survived in a definitive version - e.g. as a printed edition or fair copy - but in four different versions. Arthur Mendel's e...

Unlike Bach's other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the "St. John Passion". The first version from 1724, which is commonly used today, is a mixture of different readings. It w...

Among Verdi's numerous compositions, the Messa da Requiem remains unique as a work of sacred music. It was composed as a musical memorial to the Italian national poet Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi de...

Published in collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig with the unfinished revision (1739) in the appendix. The St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Bach's Leipzig period. In contrast...

Alongside the double-choir St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the Mass in B minor, the St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig...

Can be combined with the performance material of older editions (also with the NBA). Bach's St. John Passion is one of the greatest Passion settings in music history. It underwent several fundamental...

Bachs Johannespassion gehört zu den grossartigsten Passionsvertonungen der Musikgeschichte. Sie erlebte zu Bachs Lebzeiten mehrere grundlegende Umgestaltungen. Carus bietet alle erhaltenen Fassungen....

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...

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 St. John Passion, Bach's first passion oratorio, can hardly be understood as 'one' work. Between 1724 and 1750 the work was performed at least four times in various Leipzig churches under the comp...

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...

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...

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is the key work among the French master's sacred compositions. The work was already a success with the public during the composer's lifetime and remains so to this day. Due to...

Since its first complete performance in Bremen Cathedral in 1868, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem has undisputedly been one of the key works in the history of oratorio. The work's status results not onl...

The Frankfurt composer and professor of composition Kurt Hessenberg (1908-1994), together with Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler, ranks among the most important representatives of Protestant church music...

I. Der leidende, sterbende und begrabene Jesus (Fassung Rudolstadt 1748) II. Passio Christi, secundum Ioannem (Fassung Freiberg 1755) Unerforschte 'weiße Flecken' auf Mitteldeutschlands musikalischer...

Pietro Metastasios Libretto zur 'azione sacra' 'La Passione di Gesù Cristo' (1730) ist ein Prototyp des italienischsprachigen katholischen Oratoriums im 18. Jahrhundert, bei dem der Wortlaut der Bibel...

Die zeitgenössische Kritik sah in Rheinbergers 1864 entstandenem Stabat Mater op. 16 'eines der schönsten Werke, welches die neuere Zeit in dieser Richtung aufzuweisen hat. Ausgezeichnet durch breite...

Für Chor SATB gesetzt und mit zusätzlichen Bläserstimmen versehen von Joseph von Eybler, Ergänzung der Posaunen von Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried, revidiert von Otto Nicolai [1843] Pergolesis letzte...

The Frankfurt composer and professor of composition Kurt Hessenberg (1908-1994), together with Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler, ranks among the most important representatives of Protestant church music...

Left unfinished at the time of his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) REQUIEM MASS in D minor, K. 626 remains among the composer's most recognizable works and is a major part of the choral r...