Piano Excerpts

Mendelssohn's first large orchestral psalm took almost six years to compose, from the first sketches to the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. The work was not premiered until 1838 in...

Mendelssohn’s contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise' in the same breath as Beethoven’s Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper,...

The Missa Sancti Josephi occupies a key position among Jan Dismas Zelenka's 20 or so large masses. In this mass, which was probably composed in 1732 for a saint's feast (therefore without a Credo), th...

Bruckner's great "Mass in F minor" is one of the composer's - and 19th century choral music's - most important works. In a unique way, the composer succeeds here in musically penetrating the contents...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first one was dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression that Charles...

In 1892, Dvorák received the honorable commission from New York to write a festive cantata for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. In response, Dvorák composed a...

During his most productive period as an opera composer, Camille Saint-Saëns also wrote sacred works, of which the "Oratorio de Noël" (Christmas Oratorio) is particularly popular worldwide. The colorfu...

As Kapellmeister of the royal court theater in Dresden, Carl Maria von Weber's primary task was to establish a German opera at court. However, it was also part of his duties to provide the "church ser...

Bach's cantata BWV 69a from 1723, which has remained largely unknown to this day, is available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus edition. Unjustly, though not by chance, the wo...

The cantata "Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte" BWV 174 was composed for Whit Monday in 1729. It probably belongs to Bach's fourth cantata cycle, the so-called "Picander cycle". The introductor...

The Wedding Cantata BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 onwards at various wedding celebrations in varying forms and was apparently also lent out for performances abroad. The only surviving...

Practice-oriented Urtext edition based on the current state of Bach research With compact critical report Interpretation aids for articulation by marking analogous passages in the score Each era hear...

Practice-oriented Urtext edition based on the current state of Bach research With compact critical report Interpretation aids for articulation by marking analogous passages in the score Each era hear...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...

Just one year before his death, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy achieved a success with his oratorio "Elijah", which has made him one of the most popular oratorio composers to this day. With gripping dram...

Franz Gleissner (1761-1818) hat seine Missa solemnis in C im Stil der Wiener Klassik komponiert, mit süddeutschen Anklängen, durchaus vergleichbar mit den Messen von Joseph Haydn und Mozart. Eine Rari...

Solo piano with piano reduction after the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Piano (2) - piano reduction

Concerto for piano and orchestra. Solo piano with piano reduction after the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Piano solo, flute, oboe (2), clarinet in bb (2), bassoo...

Concerto for piano and orchestra. Solo part and piano reduction after the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Piano solo, flute, oboe (2), bassoon (2), horn (2), trump...

The piano reduction of Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat major K. 595 follows the Urtext edition as part of the New Mozart Edition. The solo piano part of this edition remains unchanged and is identic...

Mozart brought the genre of the newer piano concerto, which had been in sonata form since around 1750, to classical perfection with his 21 concertos for solo piano and orchestra. The Piano Concerto in...

Concerto for piano and orchestra. Solo part and piano reduction after the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Piano solo, oboe (2), horn (2), strings - piano reduction

Concerto for piano and orchestra. Solo part and piano reduction after the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Piano solo, oboe (2), horn (2), strings - piano reduction

Piano reduction based on the Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Harpsichord solo, strings

In the spring of 1729, Bach took over the direction of the so-called "Scottish Collegium Musicum", a student-bourgeois music association. The concertos for harpsichord are certainly among the most rem...