Piano Excerpts

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 (Carus 31.080/00) is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most frequently performed cantatas. However, the well-known form with the large opening chorale represents the...

The Missa in g is the only surviving work in this genre by Johann Hugo von Wilderer, whose work as Kapellmeister at the Electoral Palatinate court, which had resided in Mannheim since 1720, was mainly...

The representative Latin psalm composition "Deus, judicium tuum" (Ps. 71/72) is one of the best from Telemann's pen. Its composition is linked to his eight-month trip to Paris in the fall of 1737, dur...

Great Baroque church music full of color and powerful imagery! 'Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing, rejoice and praise his holy name with the trumpets and cornetts! And nature shall join in, the seas s...

The office as a priest and the long years as musical director of the Ospedale della Pietà (a large orphonage in Venice) both occasioned and inspired him to compose church music in large variety. The M...

With "Dixit Dominus" (Ps 109 [110]) and "Beatus vir" (Ps 111 [112]), two of Vivaldi's most important double-choir church compositions are available in new critical editions. With the vocal-instrumenta...

Antonio Vivaldi set Psalm 111 (112) "Beatus vir" three times ("Blessed is the man who fears the Lord"). Of these, two have survived that could hardly be more different: the extensive, double-choir wor...

The two Magnificat compositions (C major, ZWV 107; D major, ZWV 108) are part of Zelenka's collection of well over 30 psalm and Magnificat settings for the Dresden Vespers services. In contrast to the...

The new Carus edition of this sonorous work, characterized by the Italian style, contains for the first time the Choral Fugue No. 6, which can be found in Mendelssohn's autograph and was also performe...

Haydn's so-called Great Organ Solo Mass in E flat major is one of the composer's works that was widely performed early on. The mass, which is scored separately with two English horns in the wind parts...

The Missa Sti Bernardi by Offida from 1796 marks the beginning of Joseph Haydn's late work. The work was given the nickname "Heiligmesse" (Holy Mass) because Haydn quotes the then well-known hymn "Hei...

The Missa in B flat major by Joseph Haydn presented here has gone down in music history under the nickname "Theresienmesse". The reason for this name is unclear, but could be related to the performanc...

The Harmoniemesse is the last of the "High Masses" composed in the years 1796-1802 for the name day of Princess Esterházy and at the same time Haydn's last completed composition. It was given its name...

Like few other settings of the Ordinary, Mozart's masses combine high artistic perfection and beauty of sound with the requirements of the liturgy; even the text-rich movements "Gloria" and "Credo" in...

The "Missa pastoralis in C", presented here for the first time, was composed around 1808. It is part of a cycle of sacred chants called "Cursus sacro-harmonicus", which Ryba created as an ordinarium a...

Born in the same year as Mozart, Joseph Martin Kraus, who, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and also died far too young, has received more attention again in recent years...

The Stabat Mater, composed in 1767, was Joseph Haydn's first sacred work, which he composed after taking up his post with Prince Esterházy in Eisenstadt. Like hardly any other of his sacred works, it...

With the Missa Sancti Amandi, composed in 1776, Haydn created a festive mass "in pieno", i.e. scored for choir and orchestra without vocal soloists. Although very densely scored, this work is characte...

The fourth (or first) of the eleven Cannons Anthems with the text O sing unto the Lord, HWV 249b has a small instrumentation in comparison to the other anthems composed in Cannons. This practical edit...

Handel's Jubilate HWV 279 from Utrecht thrilled London audiences at its very first performance and continues to do so today in concert halls and churches around the world, partly due to its wide range...

Alt, Bratsche und Klavier (oder Orgel) - Klavierauszug

Klavierauszug nach der Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe. Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe (2), Trompete (2), Posaune (3), Pauke, Streicher, Orgel - Klavierauszug

During the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E-flat D 950. The occasion for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live...

Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod's oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effecti...