Piano Excerpts

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...

With his large-scale setting of Psalm 22, Christoph JK Müller has created a captivating choral work. He translates the vivid imagery of the biblical text into modern, stirring sounds: the result is a...

Das etwa Te Deum von 1832 überzeugt durch rasche Ausdruckswechsel und warme Orchesterfarben. Chöre, auch für Doppelchor, wechseln mit Arien und Solistenensembles, weiche Holzbläserklänge und obligate...

Das Requiem von Gabriel Fauré liegt bei Carus in zwei Fassungen vor, der 1900 abgeschlossenen 'sinfonischen Fassung' sowie einer rekonstruierten Fassung mit kleinem Orchester von 1889. - kritische Aus...

Anton Bruckner composed his Requiem in D minor at the young age of 24 in memory of a friend of his father's who was his patron. The work was greatly influenced by the Viennese classical style. He revi...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

The Missa Gratias agimus tibi by Jan Disma Zelenka was composed in 1730, a little before the Missa Sancti Josephi (Carus 27.082), and is thus already close to Zelenka's late style. As a festive mass,...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

The Missa Dei Patris ZWV 19 was composed in 1740 and ranks among the later works of the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. It opens an incompletely transmitted cycle of six masses which the compose...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's radiant Missa brevis et solemnis in C major, K. 259, famously known as the "Organ Solo Mass", is one of the most charming masterpieces of the Viennese Classical era. Despite...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold komponierte lediglich zwei genuin religiöse Werke: den Passover Psalm für Sopran, gemischten Chor, Orgel und Orchester op. 30 sowie Prayer für Tenor, Frauenchor, Harfe und Orge...

Ausgehend von dem liturgischen Text zu Beginn der Missa pro defunctis", dem sogenannten "Requiem", werden in der Folge der insgesamt 10 Sätze dieses Oratoriums Texte vertont, die das "Ewige Licht" zum...

New Guitar Concerto for 3 Guitars and Orchestra from Marco de Biasi, an Italian Composer-Teacher-Guitarist.

An extremely successful re-worked version of an excellent Baroque Concerto.

Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of the Spanish concert repertoire with the captivating "Concierto Madrigal" for two guitars and orchestra. This masterful work blends ornate Renaissance motifs wi...

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