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In many performances of Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers of the Blessed Virgin the 'Lauda Jerusalem' and the Magnificat movements, which lie in a high tessitura, are transposed downwards. So that thes...

In molte esecuzioni dei magnifici Vespri della Vergine di Monteverdi, i movimenti piuttosto alti "Lauda Jerusalem" e il Magnificat vengono trasposti verso il basso. Per renderlo possibile con la tanto...

In many performances of Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers of the Blessed Virgin the 'Lauda Jerusalem' and the Magnificat movements, which lie in a high tessitura, are transposed downwards. So that thes...

In molte esecuzioni dei magnifici Vespri della Vergine di Monteverdi, i movimenti piuttosto alti "Lauda Jerusalem" e il Magnificat vengono trasposti verso il basso. Per renderlo possibile con la tanto...

This six-movement cantata uses the hymn of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch, first recorded in 1698 in the Darmstädter Liederbuch. This places it amongst those chorale cantatas which use a hymn from...

For soli (SATB), choir (SATB) 2 oboes, 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo. Bach's chorale cantata 'Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren' BWV 137, has long been, thanks...

For soli (SATB), choir (SATB) 2 oboes d'amore, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo. The text of Bach's cantata 'Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort' was published in 1715, that is during Bach's Weimar period, in...

Bach's cantata 'My God alone this heart possesses' BWV 169 is from his third annual cantata cycle in Leipzig; it was first performed on 20 October 1726 for the 18th Sunday after Trinity. As recent res...

Probably following a special Leipzig tradition, Bach added four extra movements to the first version of his Magnificat BWV 243a (in E flat major); these can be inserted in performances of the Magnific...

The Ascension Cantata 'Du Lebensfürst, Herr Jesu Christ' BuxWV 22 by Dieterich Buxtehude is based on five verses of the hymn of thanksgiving of the same name by Johann Rist (1641), and in formal terms...

Come per molte cantate di Omilio, si nota subito l'insolita struttura formale della cantata "Kommt, frohe Völker, herzu" per la quarta domenica dopo l'Epifania, con due movimenti corali in una cantata...

L'immaginazione di Telemann era alimentata da una strumentazione speciale. Nella cantata "Herr, lehre uns bedenken" del 1720, egli combinò il coro iniziale e le due arie con parti concertanti per una...

Georg Philipp Telemann has long been perceived as a composer of sacred music, and particularly of the German-language church cantata. However, in the course of his long life he also composed church wo...

Due cose sono essenzialmente nuove: il coinvolgimento della congregazione attraverso il canto comunitario e, in secondo luogo, l'uso frequente dell'organo principale - sia nell'accompagnamento dei cor...

Quando Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tornò a Salisburgo dal suo viaggio a Parigi nel gennaio 1779, l'unica opera di musica da chiesa che aveva nel bagaglio era un Kyrie incompiuto in Mi bemolle maggiore (K....

Michael Haydn composed three of his masses in honor of the holy archangels - St Michael, St Gabriel, and the Raphaelismesse in honor of St Raphael now published. By avoiding the use of vocal soloists,...

Handel composed his only oratorio in German between 1716 and 1717 basing it on the then popular Passion text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes entitled 'Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende...

Das Passionsoratorium "Der Tod Jesu" entstand 1754/55, etwa zur gleichen Zeit wie das vielbeachtete gleichnamige Werk Carl Heinrich Grauns. Als Vorlage beider Kompositionen dient das gleiche Libretto...

Max Bruch succeeded in composing an impressive setting of the well known Advent text, 'O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf' (O Saviour, tear open the heavens). Compositionally it is extremely sophisticated...

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...

Oggi conosciuto soprattutto per le sue opere comiche come Zar und Zimmermann e Der Waffenschmied, Albert Lortzing fu anche un compositore di musica sacra. Nel 1822, ispirato dalle esecuzioni di grandi...

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...

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...

Nel 1892 Dvorák ricevette da New York il prestigioso incarico di scrivere una cantata festiva per commemorare il 400° anniversario della scoperta dell'America da parte di Cristoforo Colombo. In rispos...