Urtext Edition

Unlike Bach's other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the St. John Passion. The first version of 1724 which is today's standard version represents a mixture of different reading...

The St. John Passion, Bach's first passion oratorio, can hardly be understood as 'one' work. Between 1724 and 1750 the work was performed at least four times in various Leipzig churches under the comp...

Kantate für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester. Großes Orchester, Soli, Gemischter Chor - Partitur; Gesamtausgabe; Urtextausgabe.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum in D major, H 146 is one of the most magnificent masterpieces of the French Baroque. World-famous for its festive Prélude—internationally celebrated as the iconic Eu...

Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Streicher, Basso continuo - Partitur; Urtextausgabe

Sopran solo, Alt solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor-SATB, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Trompete 1, Trompete 2, Pauke, Streicher, Basso continuo - Partitur; Urtextausgabe

This volume represents the only annual cycle of sacred music of the 18th century printed in score; it was completed in 1744. The textual basis stems from Erdmann Neumeister. In contrast to the usual p...

Die Missa in F von 1734 für zwei bzw. vier Chöre ist wohl das bedeutendste Werk Pergolesis für Chor und Orchester. Die Bezeichnung 'Missa Romana' ist nachträglich entstanden. Sie geht auf eine Aufführ...

> Cherubini's well-known Requiem in a definitive Urtext edition > Bilingual Foreword (Eng/Ger) > Idiomatic, uncluttered piano reduction Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'R...

> Gounod's well-known mass in a new Urtext edition > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Idiomatic piano reduction > In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018 Sacred...

Beethoven described his grandly conceived 'Missa solemnis' as 'my greatest work' and sold manuscript copies to some of the subscribers even before it had appeared in print. This Urtext edition takes i...

Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, gemCh (SATB), Flöte (2), Oboe (2), Klarinette in b (2), Fagott (2), Serpent, Horn (2), Trommel (2), Posaune (3), Pauke, Streicher, Orgel - Partitur; Urtex...

> Informative Foreword in the score (Ger/Eng) > Text underlay in two languages (Lat/Ger) > Piano reduction by the composer The first great orchestral psalm Mendelssohn's first great orchestral psalm t...

> Informative Foreword in the score (Ger/Eng) > Text underlay in two languages (Lat/Ger) > Piano reduction by the composer The first great orchestral psalm Mendelssohn's first great orchestral psalm t...

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,...

As Mozart specialist Ulrich Konrad was able to prove in 2020, the version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's “Masonic Funeral Music” that is widely in use today does not stem from the composer himself. Rath...

Die recht umfangreiche und ungewöhnlich reich besetzte 'Missa Divi Xaverii' ZWV 12 von Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) entstand 1729 während seiner Wirkungszeit am Dresdner Hof und gehört zu den Höhepu...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

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...

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 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...

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...