A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Missa sacra , Op. 147, is a discovery not...
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“This is the best of me”, wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius . Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large oratorio choirs. Elgar’s moving, poetic...
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Through works such as Verdi’s Requiem or Puccini’s Messa di Gloria , we know that the great composers of Italian bel canto opera also wrote marvelous sacred music. Yet most of these pieces are rarely performed. This is also true of Gaetano...
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Anton Bruckner composed his Mass in D minor in 1864 in just four months. It was not ready in time for the Kaiser Franz Joseph I’s birthday, as planned, but was first performed on 20 November at the Feast of St Cecilia in Linz Cathedral...
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Mendelssohn’s St. Paul with just seven instead of the usual 18 wind instruments? Thanks to this arrangement for chamber orchestra, a performance with smaller forces is now possible, and presents an attractive alternative for performing...
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Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner’s symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly evident in a work by Bruckner? And yet,...
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The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem . “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line reaching back to the traditional...
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Schubert’s Mass in E flat major is the last of his six settings of the Ordinarium Missae (Mass ordinary) and also his most important work in this genre. The mass is full of color and drama, infused with the spirit of confession. For many...
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