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Soli, Chor und Orchester

Soli, Chor und Orchester

Gemischter Chor und großes Orchester.

Revelation in the Courthouse Park is a musical setting of the tragedy The Bacchae of Euripides that Harry Partch completed in 1960. The story is set in America, but also in Old Thebes: Partch compares...

Gesangssolisten, Chor und Orchester, Reihe: Musik unserer Zeit

When Hans Werner Henze received a commission to instrument early lieder by Richard Wagner at the end of the 1990s, he realised that he could not simply recreate the piano part in a scoring for classic...

The earliest and now obsolete version of this piece (first performed in Heidelberg, 1949) was scored for actors and orchestra. This revised version of 1964 has recast the actors' parts into roles for...

Aribert Reimann, who will celebrate his 70th birthday in 2006, became famous with his opera Lear, based on Shakespeare's play. His new Lorca opera, Bernada Albas Haus is both a psychological case stud...

2 Flöten, 2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten in B, 2 Fagotte, 2 Ventil-Hörner in C, 2 Waldhörner in C, 2 Ventil-Trompeten in C, 3 Posaunen, Pauken, Streicher, Chor

Whoever attempted to compose a Latin mass in the middle of the 19th century had to compete with great models and traditional composition techniques. Bach's Mass in B minor and Beethoven's Missa solemn...

'This has to be written all by oneself' is what Schumann is supposed to have said to his first biographer after the completion of the Requiem. Thus began a reception history of the work created in 185...

The German Mass is one of Schubert's most popular pieces and surely his most famous sacred work. It lies within the tradition of the Deutsche Singmesse, which developed in the late eighteenth century.

Even if Schumann falls back on the hymnbook when choosing the text of his 'Adventlied' (Advent Song), the composition probably was politically motivated and, still under the impressions of the revolut...

Schumann was right in the middle of the preparations for the performance of his oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri when he wrote the sketches of Neujahrslied. How much vocal music meant to him is show...

The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938. For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and...

This new publication presents Wagner's much-loved opera in its entirety with a detailed preface by Egon Voss. The new Urtext Edition replaces the familiar edition by the conductor Felix Weingartner, p...