Piano Excerpts

For Voice and Piano

Für mittlere bis tiefe Singstimme [g - es''] & Klavier, arrangiert von Ernst-Thilo Kalke. Mille cherubini in coro (Schubert), Stille Nacht (Gruber) & Leise rieselt der Schnee (Ebel) Für das ZDF und de...

New Urtext Edition based on original sources by Edward Blakeman Saint-Saëns was twenty-three when he wrote his Oratorio de Noël and it has all the freshness of a young composer eager to prove himself....

At last a superb musical to transform the face of the festive season! Nativity News is a tremendously fun Christmas cantata for young voices which tells the story of the birth of Jesus through the eye...

The Longest Night is a unique winter service of devotion that has a very special ministry focus. This introspective smaller work is intended to be a worship experience that encourages those going thro...

Bach's oratorio for Ascension Day was composed in Leipzig in 1735. In terms of scope, it corresponds to a cantata, but in terms of the choice of text, it can be classified as an oratorio. In addition...

Gemischter Chor (SATB), Streicher, Basso continuo

Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Klavier - Klavierauszug; Urtextausgabe Chorwerke mit Orchester-Begleitung und Solo-Singstimme(n) - Geistlich - Gemischter Chor - 4stimmig

Sopran solo, Alt solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Klavier - Klavierauszug; Urtextausgabe Chorwerke mit Orchester-Begleitung und Solo-Singstimme(n) - Geistlich - Gemischter Chor - 4stimmig

A special mass for a special occasion: Giovanni Alberti Ristori's (Christmas) Messa per il Santissimo Natale. From 1715 to 1753, Ristori rose to the position of Vice-Kapellmeister at the Electoral Sax...

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) is best known today as an opera composer and as the composition teacher of Giacomo Puccini and Pietro Mascagni. His greatest success came in 1876 at La Scala in Milan w...

The cantata "Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende" BWV 28 for the Sunday after Christmas begins unusually: with an aria instead of the usual opening chorus, characterized by joyful, dance-like rhythms i...

Festive horn sounds open Bach's cantata Darzu ist erscheinen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40, first performed on 26.12.1723. The two inner chorales, which are inserted between the recitative and the correspond...

Bach's second cantata beginning with the text "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" BWV 62 was performed on 1 Advent (the only Advent Sunday with church music in Leipzig at the time) in 1724 and belongs to t...

With its large orchestration, which was used chorally in accordance with older models, the cantata is a festive piece. In terms of its external splendor, it is at best equalled, but not surpassed, by...

The cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe BWV 64, composed for Christmas Day 1723, is characterized by the opening chorus in the "old style" without obbligato instruments. As with the cantata Darzu ist ersc...

Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag (Frühfassung). Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor, Timp, 3 Ob, Str, Fg, Org

Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtsfeiertag. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Fl, Ob, Obda, Obca, Str, Org - Tonart D-Dur / h-Moll

The cantus firmus is present in four of the six movements, giving the cantata great unity. In addition to the opening chorus and final chorale, it is heard in one of the rare tercets in Bach's vocal w...

Bach's cantata BWV 151, whose wonderfully intimate opening aria is rightly considered one of Bach's "happiest inspirations" (Alfred Dürr), was composed for Christmas Day 1725. The flute and oboe d'amo...

The Christmas cantata "Gloria in excelsis Deo", which has always presented researchers with a number of exciting puzzles, is one of the few Latin works written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It consists of...

The Advent cantata Machet die Tore weit has long been one of Telemann's most frequently performed church music works. Among the manuscripts that transmit the cantata is an important testimony to the e...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Oratorio de Noël for five vocal solos, mixed choir, strings, organ and harp in 1858. The work, which is sung in Latin, is based on texts from the Old and New Testament...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Oratorio de Noël for five vocal solos, mixed choir, strings, organ and harp in 1858. The work, which is sung in Latin, is based on texts from the Old and New Testament...