SKU: CA.4048990
ISBN 9790007070397. Key: E phrygian. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.7007709
ISBN 9790007083205. Language: Czech/German.
Score available separately - see item CA.7007700.
SKU: CA.4084024
ISBN 9790007162511. Key: B flat major. Language: German. Text: Herder, Johann Gottfried. Text: Johann Gottfried Herder.
Score available separately - see item CA.4084000.
SKU: CA.7007103
ISBN 9790007107949. Key: C minor. Language: Czech/German.
Score available separately - see item CA.7007100.
SKU: CA.7007213
ISBN 9790007082840. Language: Czech/German.
Score available separately - see item CA.7007200.
SKU: CA.1225005
ISBN 9790007090340. Language: German. Text: Klein, Ronald. Text: Ronald Klein.
Score available separately - see item CA.1225000.
SKU: CA.4013093
Language: German.
Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament. Mendelssohn to his librettist. Score available separately - see item CA.4013000.
SKU: CA.2333600
ISBN 9790007198800. Key: D major. Language: German.
Und das Wort ward Fleisch is a partially imitative motet.
SKU: CA.7007203
ISBN 9790007107956. Language: Czech/German.
SKU: CA.3100519
ISBN 9790007135928. Key: G minor. Language: German/English. Text: Heermann, Johann. Text: Johann Heermann.
Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3100500.
SKU: CA.7007212
ISBN 9790007082833. Language: Czech/German.
SKU: CA.4029500
ISBN 9790007066482. Key: C major. Language: German.
SKU: CA.3100409
ISBN 9790007041526. Key: E minor. Language: German/English. Text: Luther, Martin. Text: Martin Luther.
The cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden is among Bach's earliest preserved vocal compositions. The text is based Martin Luther's Easter chorale of the same name. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3100400.
SKU: CA.3530605
ISBN 9790007103491. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
Score available separately - see item CA.3530600.
SKU: CA.1011100
ISBN 9790007145903. Text language: German. Text: von Chamisso, Adelbert / Hebbel, Friedrich / Storm, Theodor / Trakl, Georg / Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand.
The Tanz der Toten (Dance of Death) is a melodrama for mixed chorus, narrator and piano, based on texts by Adelbert von Chamisso, Friedrich Hebbel, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Theodor Storm, and Georg Trakl. It portrays in music the journey from the world of the living to the kingdom of the dead.
SKU: CA.970130
ISBN 9790007160647. Key: G major. Language: Latin/English/German. Text: Wade, John Francis. Text: John Francis Wade.
The composition is trilingual. German, English, and Latin are used simultaniously. Score available separately - see item CA.970100.
SKU: CA.208210
ISBN 9790007197537. Key: G mixolydian. Language: German.
Score available separately - see item CA.208200.
SKU: CA.7007713
ISBN 9790007083236. Language: Czech/German.
SKU: CA.5050149
ISBN 9790007224196. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
One of the most important masses of the pre-classical period, and one of the earliest examples of symphonic church music, published for the first time. Score and part available separately - see item CA.5050100.
SKU: CA.744600
ISBN 9790007297787. Latin.
The Japanese composer Ko Matsushita approaches choral music in numerous ways. He is busy as a conductor and artistic director of many choirs whose outstanding achievements have been consistently recognized in international competitions. He also composes and arranges for choirs and his works are performed worldwide.
SKU: CA.177700
ISBN 9790007253929. German.
The conductor Frieder Bernius regards the motets of Hans Fahrmann as an indispensable and extremely welcome addition to the late Romantic repertoire. The composer's output is little known nowadays. Born in 1860, he was considered the Richard Strauss of the organ during his lifetime. With their demanding harmonies, Fahrmann's choral motets place high demands on choirs and - like Reger's works - stretch tonality to its extremes. And not least, their sonorous expressivity is thanks to their chromatic richness. Frieder Bernius has recorded the Motets opp. 34, 45, and 65 with the SWR Vokalensemble for the first time on CD (Carus 83.499).
SKU: CA.620500
ISBN 9790007011574. Key: G major. Language: German.
SKU: CA.4084004
ISBN 9790007162405. Key: G major. Language: German. Text: von Fallersleben, Hoffmann. Text: Hoffmann von Fallersleben.
SKU: CA.3104012
ISBN 9790007042905. Key: F major. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3104000.
SKU: CA.208220
ISBN 9790007197544. Key: C minor. Language: German.
SKU: CA.5034811
ISBN 9790007081515. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
Contents: Dixit Dominus (Ps 109, C major) Confitebor (Ps 110, E flat major) Beatus vir (Ps 111, G major) Laudate pueri (Ps 112, B flat major) Laudate Dominum (Ps 116, F major) Magnificat (Vespercanticum, C major). Score and part available separately - see item CA.5034800.
SKU: CA.3100309
ISBN 9790007041434. Key: A major. Language: German/English. Text: Moller, Martin. Text: Martin Moller.
For the 2nd Epiphany Sunday 1725, Bach composed the cantata O God, what glut of care and pain. It forms part of the annual cycle of chorale cantatas. In the large-scale opening movement, a choral setting full of anguish with expansive orchestral sections, the bass presents the cantus firmus in segments, reinforced by one trombone. This is followed directly by the second chorale verse in a four-part setting in which, however, each chorale line is interrupted by a short recitative (each one sung by a different voice). The bass, who closes the recitative, also sings the following continuo aria which is rich in melismatic passages. The second aria is a duet expanded into a quartet setting by the addition of oboes d'amore and continuo; it leads into the closing chorale containing a wealth of transitions. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3100300.
SKU: CA.178000
ISBN 9790007253950. German.
SKU: CA.4063005
ISBN 9790007074708. Key: D minor. Language: Latin.
Score available separately - see item CA.4063000.
SKU: CA.3100503
ISBN 9790007041595. Key: G minor. Language: German/English. Text: Heermann, Johann. Text: Johann Heermann.
Score available separately - see item CA.3100500.