Morten Schuldt-Jensen: spartiti facile

Gli arrangiamenti di questa raccolta rappresentano l'80% dell'intera opera a cappella di Duruflé, con tre dei quattro Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens Op. 10 (1960) e Notre Père Op. 14 (1977/19...

These five anthems, covering 130 years, are all mainstays of the British church and cathedral choir canon. Attwood, a pupil of Mozart, avoids the overtly florid, quasi-operatic verse anthem solos that...

Die Schöpfung is not only a decisive high point in Joseph Haydn's career as a composer, but also marks a turning point in the history of the oratorio in general. On the threshold of the 19th century,...

Inter natos mulierum (KV 72) is a setting of the offertory for the feast of St John the Baptist. It was written in Salzburg in May or June 1771 after the return of Mozart and his father from an extend...

In addition to his masses and the Requiem, Mozart wrote an abundance of smaller sacred choral works for the church. Misericordias Domini KV 222 (205a) was created at the beginning of 1775 in Munich as...

In many parts of the world, Advent and Christmas carols have become part of the standard repertoire of popular songs, and this tradition has also produced a large number of such songs in German-speaki...

During her lifetime, Fanny Hensel was overshadowed by her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was three years her junior, and for a long time she was regarded merely as an occasional composer. It...

This collection, created in 1888, is Johannes Brahms' last collection of secular choral songs. Originally for four-to-six parts, these sonorous choral works are striking for their rich harmony and dou...

The 29-year-old Franz Schubert composed his German Mass (D 872) in 1826 at the request of Johann Philipp Neumann, who also wrote the text with the original title 'Songs for the celebration of the holy...

[...] Send me a song or two to sing in autumn, or even better in summer or in spring, on the water or the meadow or the bridge, or in the forest or in the garden. [...]', wrote Mendelssohn on 1 August...

Few other works posed Brahms so many artistic and critical challenges as the Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Op. 54. The immediate spark of inspiration upon encountering Hölderlin's poem - in the sum...