Mixed Choir with Orchestra

“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...

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...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, Oboe, Cor Anglais, 2 Clarinets in B Flat, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in C, 2 Tenor Trombones, Bass Trombone Percussion (2 players: Glockenspiel / Snare Drum / Tam-ta...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) first set the text of the Magnificat, BWV 243, in 1723 after taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but in the key of E-flat. This original version (cataloged...

For solo soprano, solo tenor, SATB choir and orchestra (1824 arr. 2024). Commissioned by Classic FM for Classic FM Live at the Royal Albert Hall. First performed on 22 April 2024 at Classic FM Live, R...

Boldly reimagined and completed by Martin Yates, The Future, a substantial non finito draft of a major choral setting of words by Matthew Arnold, dates from 1908, immediately after Toward the Unknown...

The Low German Christmas Oratorio for soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ will see the light of day in December 2024. With De hillige Nacht, Claus Woschenko (* 1979) has created an impressive v...

This motet was first performed at the dedication of the Battle of Britain Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London, and has an accordingly sombre tone.

A substantial work for four soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using text from the translation of Stephen Mitchell's The Book Of Job. Like Vaughan Williams in his Job: A Masque for Dancing, Davies was i...

De profundis is the result of Christoph Schönherr's intensive study of the last years of Franz Schubert's life and is intended as a "homage" to the great Romantic composer in the subtitle. Musical quo...

For Narrator, Baritone Solo, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra.

This significant seven-movement work from Cecilia McDowall presents an imaginative pairing of extracts from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci with texts from the Latin Missa pro defunctis. Da Vinci's...

> Gounod's well-known mass in a new Urtext edition > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Idiomatic piano reduction > In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018 Sacred...

> Gounod's well-known mass in a new Urtext edition > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Idiomatic piano reduction > In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018 Sacred...

Mozart’s magnificent unfinished 'Great Mass in C minor K. 427' is impressive not only for its monumentality and musical beauty but for its fragmentary state which has fascinated scholars and performer...

Mozart's magnificent, unfinished "Missa in c" K. 427 impresses not only because of its monumentality and musical beauty, but also because its incomplete transmission has fascinated scholars and practi...

Orchesterbesetzung: 2 Oboen, 1 Taille (Englischhorn), Streicher und B.c.

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...