Scores for Orchestra

In June 1984, Mulligan completed and performed his first orchestral commission, Entente for Baritone Saxophone and Orchestra, with the Filarmonia Venetia. He went on to perform this symphonic work sev...

Spirituals, folk tunes, and gospel music have received great popularity during the last century. Much is owed to collector-composers like Nathaniel Dett for holding on to primary source materials now...

The 16th century Finnish carol Personent Hodie (On This Day Earth Shall Ring) has never sounded so thrilling. A new text of peace and hope, along with brilliant harmonic colors and rhythmic motifs tha...

Feierlich – für Kirche und Konzertsaal Das Oratorium "Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu" entstand um 1760 und ist eines der letzten großen Vokalwerke Telemanns. Der Text von Karl Wilhelm Ramler sc...

Anders als bei den sonstigen Oratorienkompositionen Bachs gibt es für die "Johannes-Passion" keine endgültige Werkgestalt. So stellt die heute gängige erste Fassung von 1724 eine Mischung verschiedene...

Brahms' elegy Nänie op. 82, based on the poem by Friedrich von Schiller, was composed in 1880/81 following the death of the painter Anselm Feuerbach, whom Brahms greatly admired. In contrast with the...

Der Komponist Albert Lortzing ist heute vor allem für seine komischen Opern wie Zar und Zimmermann oder Der Waffenschmied bekannt. Doch er hat auch geistliche Musik geschrieben. 1822 - unter dem Eindr...

Die Missa solemnis bezeichnete Beethoven mehrfach als sein größtes Werk, welches 'von Herzen' kommend die Menschen berühren und bewegen sollte. Die überlieferten Quellen lassen erkennen, wie intensiv...

Carus-Verlag is now publishing this early work by Camille Saint-Saëns in a critical new edition. Among the sacred works by Saint-Saëns there are just two settings of the mass: the 'Messe de Requiem''...

Unter den gut 20 großen Messen von Jan Dismas Zelenka kommt der Missa Sancti Josephi eine Schlüsselstellung zu. In der vermutlich 1732 für ein Heiligenfest (deshalb ohne Credo) komponierten Messe grei...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F minor" is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

Shining rays stream from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first people were dazzled, then bewitched, then overcome.' This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns described the impression made on him b...

As an acclaimed opera composer, Georges Bizet admitted that he had no real sensibility for sacred music. His Te Deum is nonetheless a truly fascinating and highly expressive work. From the majestic "T...

In 1892 Dvorák received a prestigious commission from New York to write a festive cantata to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery of America. In response he wrote an im...

During his most productive period as an opera composer, Camille Saint-Saëns also wrote sacred works, among which his Oratorio de Noël has enjoyed great worldwide popularity. The colorful and opulently...

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...

Composed in 1727 for a 'eulogy and funeral oration' for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in the Leipzig University church, the music for the funeral ode is well-known today above all through reconstru...

Die Choralkantate Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn entstand vermutlich 1771 und greift eine Dichtung von Johann Georg Albinus über den 6. Psalm auf. Die sieben Strophen der Vorlage werden in sieben Sät...

The ambitious late work of Georg Philipp Telemann, consciously dedicated to vocal composition, begins with the Donner-Ode (1756/1760). As a symbol thunder represents the forces of nature, here in clos...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bachs St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accuse...

Mozarts Missa in C-Dur KV 317, unbegründeterweise Krönungsmesse genannt, zählt zu den beliebtesten und am meisten aufgeführten Werken ihrer Gattung. Das in vieler Hinsicht aufschlussreiche Autograph d...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, Cfg, 4 Cor, 2 Tr, 3 Trb, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb, Org Sprache: lateinisch - Beethovens Meisterwerk im Urtext - herausgegeben von Ernst Herttrich - inform...