Mixed Choir with Orchestra

Mozart's "Missa in C major" K. 317, unfoundedly called the "Coronation Mass", is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works of its genre. The autograph of the mass, which is revealing...

Schubert's Mass in E flat major is the last of his six settings of the Ordinarium Missae and also his most important work in this genre. The mass is full of varied drama and confessional expression an...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

Beethoven repeatedly described the Missa solemnis as his greatest work, which was intended to touch and move people "from the heart". The surviving sources reveal how intensively and for how long Beet...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented a complete version of Mozart's Requiem. "Another version?" you might think, as there are now a whole series of other versions available al...

The Carus Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1800 as its main source. Haydn had it self-published, contrary to his usual practice, in order to avoid unauthorized pre-public...

The Carus Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1800 as its main source. Haydn had it self-published, contrary to his usual practice, in order to avoid unauthorized pre-public...

Available on request. New edition with all performance material under 56.001/01.

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...

Johann Sebastian Bach's (1685-1750) composed his chorale CANTATA No. 140, WACHET AUF, RUFT UNS DIE STIMME (Awake, calls the voice to us), BWV 140, also known as SLEEPERS AWAKE, for the 27th Sunday aft...

The World Imagined explores themes around the smallness of man, the apprehension of the divine in everything around us, and our ecstatic communion within that vastness. The powerfully evocative texts...

The genesis of Lamentation is a matter of friendship. Composed in memory of my friend and composer Laurent Galmiche who died prematurely, this piece was created in Montpellier in April 2008 by Anna Re...

> Urtext edition based on the 'New Schubert Edition' > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) > Idiomatic, uncluttered piano reduction (Ger) On 20 December 1823 Helmina von Chézy's 'great romantic drama' 'Rosam...

Mendelssohn’s contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise' in the same breath as Beethoven’s Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper,...

Seit 2001 steht die 'Neunte' im Memory of the World Register der UNESCO. Beethoven war mit seinem einzigartigen Werk über viele Jahre, spätestens seit 1815 und noch bis kurz vor seinem Tode beschäftig...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

César Franck (1822-1890) is now regarded as one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. 'Les Béatitudes', his monumental oratorio setting the text from Jesus's Sermon on the...

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...