Scores for Orchestra

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Bach's Cantata BWV 69a of 1723, which has remained largely unknown to the present day, is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication. It has been unjustly negl...

The cantata 'Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte' (I love the Almighty with all of my spirit) BWV 174 was composed for Whit Monday 1729. It probably belongs to Bach's fourth cycle of cantatas, kn...

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afiel...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Only the text and the last page of the autograph score of the Christmas Cantata Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe BWV 197.1 (197a) have survived, beginning with the end of the 2nd aria. This, along with the c...

Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as "a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the wor...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio in the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

Thanks to the skilful dramatization, the independent instrumental parts and the effective choruses, Berlioz's trilogy "L'Enfance du Christ" (The Childhood of Christ) is a rewarding alternative for Chr...

Der Satz, vermutlich im September 1812 komponiert, stellt eine der frühesten Messvertonungen Schuberts dar. Soli ST, Coro SATB, Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org

Several elements contribute to the Christmassy character of this mass, which is characterized by its high level of compositional skill: creative devices such as triadic motifs, cradle symbolism as wel...

Bach had bequeathed the score of the Mass in A major to his son Wilhelm Friedemann. From him, the copy soon came into the possession of the Leipzig publishing house of Breitkopf & Härtel, as can be se...

Anton Bruckner's Mass in F minor (WAB 28) stands as one of the most powerful and profound masterpieces of Romantic sacred choral music. Defined by dramatic intensity, sublime grandeur, and moving inti...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is one of the most moving and monumental masterpieces in the history of music. The genius's unfinished legacy continues to touch audiences with it...

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Experience the festive majesty and triumphant brilliance of George Frideric Handel's renowned "Dettingen Te Deum" HWV 283. Composed to celebrate the military victory at Dettingen in 1743, this magnifi...

This edition of George Frideric Handel's (1685-1759) most famous work was edited by Ebenezer Prout, and includes additional accompaniments largely re-written by him. The preface provided by Prout offe...

This urtext edition of George Frideric Handel's most famous work, was edited by Arnold Schering with continuo realization by Kurt Soldan. The chorus AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD is No. 4 from Part I of t...

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

Urtext of both versions The new edition of BWV 118 presents the work in the two different instrumental settings secured by the autograph scores: the earlier version with brass only and the later with...

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I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.