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Salve! luminosa Cecilia, salve a te. Grande patrona di noi e dell'armonia!. - Con questa esclamazione inizia il coro finale dell'omonima ode di Cecilia di Henry Purcell del 1692. La composizione è un...

Das deutsche Nunc dimittis 'Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener' hat Schütz 1656 anlässlich des Todes des sächsischen Kurfürsten Johann Georg I. gleich 'auf zweyerlei Art' vertont und drucken lassen. D...

In his Christmas motet 'Hodie Christus natus est' Schütz employs the full mastery of his madrigalian musical language and exploits all the sonorous richness which the six part scoring offers him. The...

No. 13 of the 'Opus ultimum'

Alongside Gesualdo and Monteverdi, Marenzio is one of the great Italian madrigalists. The influence of his sophisticated madrigalian art on the younger generation of composers is shown by the fact tha...

At the age of eighty-six Heinrich Schütz composed his last work in 1671 with his monumental setting of Psalm 119, complemented in an appendix with a setting of Psalm 100, and a setting of a German Mag...

I tre grandi mottetti Quam dilecta, In convertendo e Deus noster refugium, che Jean-Philippe Rameau compose tra il 1713 e il 1715, sono rimasti relativamente sconosciuti fino ad oggi. Eppure questi mo...

Cosa c'entra l'"Oratorio di Natale" di Bach con Ercole? Più di quanto si possa pensare a prima vista. Nell'estate del 1733, il 5 settembre 1733, giorno dell'undicesimo compleanno dell'Elettore sassone...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 (CV31080-00) is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most frequently-performed cantatas. But the well-known form of the work, with its great opening chorale chorus, repr...

Great Baroque church music full of color and powerful imagery! 'Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing, rejoice and praise his holy name with the trumpets and cornetts! And nature shall join in, the seas s...

Le messe di Johann Michael Haydn sono capolavori del loro genere e furono estremamente popolari durante la sua vita, come dimostra l'elevato numero di copie. Questo vale anche per la Missa Sancti Domi...

Bring one of the most sublime classics in music history to your stage: George Frideric Handel's world-famous "Largo from Xerxes" enchants listeners across generations with its timeless elegance and pr...

Bring one of the most sublime classics in music history to your stage: George Frideric Handel's world-famous "Largo from Xerxes" enchants listeners across generations with its timeless elegance and pr...

Bring festive brilliance to your holiday concert with this exhilarating arrangement of the beloved classic "Joy to the World," published by Excelcia Music Publishing. Scored for mixed choir (SATB) and...

Starting with an understated first verse then moving into the "bell" section over the melody in the second verse and concluding with a triumphant ending. A great closer for your Christmas program.

Classic Bach in the hands of master arranger Russell Robinson means this setting will sound as full and rich as the original, but it will be accessible to three-part choirs in a very sing-able way. Th...

Si tratta di un medley up-tempo di due dei brani più famosi di G.F. Handel, Joy to the World e For Unto us a Child Is Born. Excelcia Music Publishing è orgogliosa di presentare questo splendido arrang...

This is an up-tempo medley of two of G.F. Handel's most famous pieces, Joy to the World and For Unto us a Child Is Born. Excelcia Music Publishing is proud to present this stunning arrangement by Jame...