Vocal Sheet Music

The coffee cantata "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" and the peasant cantata " Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet " - both based on texts by Picander - are among Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known and most fre...

Based on the musical text of the Bärenreiter piano reductions, six volumes have been published containing some of Handel's best-known arias, duets and tercets, as well as some lesser-known numbers of...

Based on the musical text of the Bärenreiter piano reductions, three volumes are published containing some of Handel's best-known arias for mezzo-soprano/alto, tenor and bass, as well as some lesser-k...

Based on the musical text of the Bärenreiter piano reductions, three volumes are published containing some of Handel's best-known arias for mezzo-soprano/alto, tenor and bass, as well as some lesser-k...

The six chamber duets for soprano and alto selected for this volume were composed in Hanover in 1710-12 (HWV 178, 185, 197) and in London in 1740-45 (HWV 181, 190, 186). Thanks to their high degree of...

The anthem "How beautiful are the feet", also known as "Anthem on the Peace", was premiered in 1749 by the Chapel Royal in London at a thanksgiving service on the occasion of the Peace of Aachen, whic...

The anthem "How beautiful are the feet", also known as "Anthem on the Peace", was premiered in 1749 by the Chapel Royal in London at a thanksgiving service on the occasion of the Peace of Aachen, whic...

George Frideric Handel's anthem "Blessed are they that considereth the poor" was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and is known by this name. The vocal...

George Frideric Handel's anthem "Blessed are they that considereth the poor" was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and is known by this name. The vocal...

To celebrate the Peace Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, the "Utrecht Jubilate" was composed in the same year, shortly after Handel had composed the "Te Deum"....

The ten "Biblical Songs" op. 99 based on psalm texts from the Czech Kralice Bible are the highlight of Antonín Dvorák's extensive song oeuvre. The unique cycle was composed in the United States in 189...

The ten "Biblical Songs" op. 99 based on psalm texts from the Czech Kralice Bible are the highlight of Antonín Dvorák's extensive song oeuvre. The unique cycle was composed in the United States in 189...

> Third volume from the new five-volume Urtext edition of Dvorák's complete songs > One of the most popular and best-known song cycles of the romantic repertoire > Extensive Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and...

Dvorák composed the song cycle Gypsy Melodies op. 55 after texts by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk at the beginning of 1880 at the request of Gustav Walter, a tenor from Bohemia and member of the Vienna...

Dvorák composed the song cycle Zigeunermelodien op. 55 after texts by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk at the beginning of 1880 at the request of Gustav Walter, a tenor from Bohemia and member of the Vienn...

The libretto of what is likely Handel's shortest opera - and apart from Mozart's 'Lucio Silla' the most important musical setting of the text - is based on Plutarch's biography of Roman consul and dic...

The libretto of Handel's probably shortest opera - the most important setting of the material alongside Mozart's "Lucio Silla" - is based on Plutarch's description of the life of the cruel Roman consu...

Handel's three-act opera "Sosarme, Re di Media" (HWV 30) was first performed in 1732 with the star castrato Senesino in the title role. The plot centers on a family conflict over the succession to the...

Handel composed his first Italian oratorio "La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" in 1707, based on an allegorical and moralistic libretto by his patron Cardinal Benedetto Pamp...

Handel's cantatas for solo voice and basso continuo are a treasure waiting to be discovered. There are more than 80 compositions and probably the least known group of works by Handel. Their neglect is...

For Beat Furrer, the poet Dino Campana (1885-1932) is "probably the only Italian writer of his time who was able to bring the new futuristic ideas to life with great poetic power and a strong connecti...

Three poems by the French lyricist Louis Amade, known for his texts for Edith Piaf and Gilbert Bécaud, form the basis for a series of pictograms of human emotional states. While keeping to singeable m...

Three poems by the French lyricist Louis Amade, known for his texts for Edith Piaf and Gilbert Bécaud, provide the basis for a "sequence of images" of human emotional worlds. While retaining a cantabi...

The volume "Lieder I" of the five-volume Urtext edition of all Antonín Dvorák's solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs - from Dvorák's first publicly performed, previously unpublished s...