Mixed Choir with Piano

The Bohemian Shepherd's Mass from 1796 by Mozart's contemporary Jakub Jan Ryba is the most important of the so-called Czech Christmas masses. These are masses in a popularly reinterpreted sense, in wh...

Antonin Rejcha's "Te Deum" from 1825, which remained unpublished at the time and is presented here as a first edition, is undoubtedly one of the great, albeit little-known, Te Deum settings of the tra...

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

Contemporary critics considered Rheinberger's Stabat Mater op. 16, composed in 1864, to be "one of the most beautiful works in this genre in recent times. Distinguished by its broad structure and nobl...

Inspired by Mozart and Cherubini's Requiem settings, Rheinberger created his first major sacred work in 1865 with the "Requiem" op. 60. Before its premiere in 1870, he reworked it once again and dedic...

The Missa Beatissimae Virginis Mariae was composed around 1758-1760, between the end of Haydn's time as Kapellsänger at St. Stephen's in Vienna and his first appointment as Kapellmeister to the Bishop...

Johann Michael Haydn worked for over 40 years at the prince-archbishop's court in Salzburg, for whom he composed most of his works. The St. Francis Mass, on the other hand, was commissioned by the imp...

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Two complete Requiem settings by Johann Adolf Hasse have survived. Hasse composed the C major Requiem for the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. Only a few weeks later, his son Elector Friedrich Chris...

In contrast to Mozart's much shorter masses of the same period, Leopold Mozart described K. 262 as a "Missa longa". Indeed, the length of the individual movements and the final fugues of the Gloria an...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, Cfg, 2 Cor, 3 Trb, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb, Cemb Der neuen Carus-Urtextausgabe liegt als Hauptquelle der Partitur-Erstdruck von 1800 zu Grunde. Haydn hatt...

The 30 or so mass settings by Johann Michael Haydn are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime. In his sacred music, the composer achieved a synthesis of counterpoin...

Due to its instrumentation alone, the Missa Sancti Hieronymi occupies a special position both among Haydn's mass settings and in the church music repertoire of the Salzburg royal court. The extraordin...

The names given to Michael Haydn's masses are related to the specific commission or the dedicatee of the composition. For example, Haydn composed the "Missa in honorem Sti. Gotthardi", also known as t...

Among Haydn's more than thirty settings of the Latin Ordinary text, his Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae, completed on August 5, 1793 according to the autograph, occupies a prominent position. It can...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

The work, previously attributed to Joseph Haydn, is edited here for the first time under the name of his brother Johann Michael and according to the most reliable source from 1765 from the Benedictine...

Handel's vesper psalm Nisi Dominus (Psalm 127), which is presented here in a new critical edition, was composed in Rome in 1707 for the feast of the Madonna del Monte Carmel. It is very much in the tr...

Great occasions call for great music! The "Dettinger Te Deum" is a splendid example of how Handel was able to set the tone for festive occasions in an unrivaled way. Handel expresses the sublime chara...

The genesis of the oratorio is an adventurous one: the nucleus of the three-part work were numbers from the middle section, "Flight into Egypt", which Berlioz composed on a whim in 1850 and subordinat...

With a performance duration of around 10 minutes, Schubert's Magnificat D 486 in C major is one of the more concentrated settings of the well-known Marian canticum text, which originally belonged to t...

Johann Michael Haydn's masses are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime, as the large number of copies shows. This also applies to the Missa Sancti Dominici, which...

The Gabrielsmesse, which was very popular in Michael Haydn's time, exists in two versions: the first and original version contains a very short Gloria and Credo. In the second version, the two mass mo...

Experience a festive masterpiece of sacred music with Johann Ernst Eberlin's Missa in C. This radiant work captivates with its solemn splendor, harmonic elegance, and inspiring choral writing. Scored...

Set for SATB choir and with additional wind parts by Joseph von Eybler, addition of trombones by Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried, revised by Otto Nicolai (1843) Pergolesi's last major composition, the...