Piano Excerpts

With his oratorio »St. Paul« (Paulus) Op. 36, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created one of the most moving and powerful sacred masterworks of the Romantic era. The work vividly portrays the dramatic con...

The setting of Psalm 98 was written within a few weeks as a commissioned composition in Mendelssohn's new position as Prussian General Music Director and was premiered by the Berlin Cathedral Choir on...

Edited by Christina M. Stahl and Michael Stegemann Piano reduction by Martin Focke The Messe de Requiem is probably Gabriel Fauré's best-known and most frequently performed work internationally. After...

This is the best of me, wrote Edward Elgar after the final bar of his "Dream of Gerontius". First performed in 1900, the work has long been one of the standard works of great oratorio choruses in Grea...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

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...

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...

Antonin Rejcha's "Te Deum" from 1825, which remained unpublished at the time and is presented here as a first edition, is undoubtedly one of the great, albeit little-known, Te Deum settings of the tra...

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...

Filled with youthful brilliance, dramatic passion, and unmistakable melodic richness, Giacomo Puccini’s early masterpiece—the Messa a 4 voci con orchestra SC 6 (often celebrated as the Messa di Gloria...

Text: from Psalms 33, 146, 150

Experience the radiant splendor of sacred choral music with the festive Magnificat in D Major. This magnificent work unfolds its celebratory brilliance through a rich five-part setting for mixed choir...

Experience a breathtaking masterpiece of polychoral grandeur with "Plaudite omnis terra"! This festive motet unfolds an incomparable sonic splendor that captivates performers and audiences alike. Scor...

Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity (German/English), after the Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Soprano solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Oboe (2), Oboe-dacc, Strings, Basso continuo

The coffee cantata "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" and the peasant cantata " Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet " - both based on texts by Picander - are among Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known and most fre...

Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition. Large orchestra, soprano solo (3), alto solo, bass solo, tenor solo (2) - piano reduction; Complete edition; Urtext edition V o k A l m u s i c - Stage works - Oper...

Written in 1736 shortly before the early death of the only 26-year-old Pergolesi, the 'Stabat mater' quickly attracted attention. The importance of the work was soon so great that none other than Joha...

In his roles as Kapellmeister at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and in the royal chapel of Louis XV, André Campra composed numerous grand motets, which often show stylistic influences from contemporary...

Date of composition of the wedding cantata on which this work is based (BWV 34a) 1726, the parody in the first half of the 1740s

Experienced organists in particular will enjoy this Bach cantata: A concerto by Bach, which has been lost in its original form and which he arranged for organ, is concealed in the opening movements of...

The soprano cantata "Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht" by Johann Sebastian Bach is intended for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on November 24, 1726 in the year of its first performance. It...