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The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717 for...

In seinem Passionsoratorium Christus am Ölberge gelang es Beethoven einerseits, an eine Tradition des 18. Jahrhunderts anzuknüpfen, andererseits aber auch die aufblühende Gattung des deutschsprachigen...

Johann Adolf Hasse's Requiem in B flat was probably composed in the second half of the 1750s and is presented here for the first time in a printed version. Nothing is known about the purpose of this b...

Anton Bruckner composed his first mass, the Mass in D minor, in 1864 in just four months. It was not ready in time for the Kaiser Franz Joseph I's birthday, as planned, but was first performed on 20 N...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

Look Around is a piece for four-part mixed choir by Polish composer and arranger Zuzanna Koziej. The message of the work is reflective: Koziej calls on us to pause, raise our awareness and enjoy the b...

Are you looking for operatic drama for the church choir? Then the "Messa di Gloria" for soloists, choir and orchestra by Pietro Mascagni is just the right work for you. Mascagni, whose opera "Cavaller...

Zu Unrecht ist Diabellis Kirchenmusik weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten, dabei schafft der österreichische Komponist der Bieder­meierzeit in der 'Pastoral-Messe in F' den Spagat zwischen künstlerisc...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Louis Spohr’s *Des Heilands letzte Stunden* (The Savior’s Last Hours), composed in 1835, is one of the most significant Passion oratorios of the 19th century. The freely adapted text by the well-known...

The Missa in Tempore Belli is an interesting work in several respects. On the one hand, this mass setting allows some conclusions to be drawn about the situation of Austrian church music under the inf...

There is hardly a work by a contemporary with which Bach demonstrably occupied himself as often and intensively as with Keiser's "St. Mark Passion". A total of three performances can be proven, for ea...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, among other things in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this Vespers Psalm has some peculiarities: the...

As an acclaimed opera composer, Georges Bizet admitted that he had no real sensibility for sacred music. His Te Deum is nonetheless a truly fascinating and highly expressive work. From the majestic “T...

Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a 'symphony for chorus and orchestra'… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the wor...

Das Gloria in D RV 589 ist das bekannteste geistliche Werk Vivaldis und gehört zu seinen bedeutendsten kirchenmusikalischen Kompositionen. Es ist als selbstständiger Einzelsatz vermutlich zwischen 171...

Goethes dramatische Ballade Die erste Walpurgisnacht inspirierte Mendelssohn zu einer großartigen und plastischen Darstellung des Konfliktes zwischen einer alten heidnischen Gemeinschaft und den neuen...

The Mendelssohn family cultivated a very special form of house music in their garden cottage on the family estate: the so-called Sonntagsmusiken (Sunday musicales). Perhaps this inspired Fanny Hensel...

Swiss up your choir! The choral collection Swiss Choral Music is a real treasure trove of recent choral music from Switzerland. As diverse as the country itself, this volume of approximately 30 choral...

Swiss up your choir! The choral collection Swiss Choral Music is a real treasure trove of recent choral music from Switzerland. As diverse as the country itself, this volume of approximately 30 choral...