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Elijah Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text from 29,90 €

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:59:17 +0100

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn’s compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Elijah, Mendelssohn’s second great oratorio, was composed 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. With Elijah Frieder Bernius continues the prizewinning CD series of Mendelssohn’s complete sacred works.

Geistliches Chorwerk. Motetten, Psalmen, Choralkantaten, Lobgesang (Bernius) 59,90 €

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:20:13 +0100

The complete recording with Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart of Felix Mendelssohn’s sacred choral works represents a magnificent act of interpretation and editing. All of the motets, psalms, chorale cantatas, smaller church works, plus the symphony cantata Lobgesang from the award-winning recording are available for the first time in a box set of 10 CDs.

Awarded the Diapason d'Or

Awarded the ICMA. International Classical Music Award

Awarded the Pizzicato Supersonic Award

Hör mein Bitten. Kirchenwerke I (Bernius) 19,90 €

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:39:16 +0100

This CD traverses a spectrum from the 16-voice Hora est or the imposing Kyrie – both of which are early Mendelssohn works – to the later Magnificat and Canticum Simeonis. These later works are among the most expressive a cappella choral compositions of the Romantic era.

Hymn of Praise Symphony cantata from 19,90 €

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:16:06 +0100

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Symphony cantata Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) is the conclusion of the recording of his complete sacred music, performed by the Kammerchor Stuttgart, under the direction of Frieder Bernius. Originally conceived as a small oratorio or a large psalm-cantata, the combination of 3 symphonic movements with 12 vocal movements conformed to neither of these two genres; thus Mendelssohn called the work a “Sinfonie-Kantate.” In the course of the 20th century the unavoidable and, in part, negative comparisons to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony led to the Lobgesang being almost completely ignored. It is only in the last few decades, spurred on by the definitive impulse of Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart, that the work has come to be regarded as a successful example of the symphonic conception of Mendelssohn’s sacred music, in which he attempted to bridge the gap between church and concert hall.

St. Paul Oratorio 12,99 €

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:26:25 +0100

Mendelssohn composed St. Paul, his first oratorio, under the impression the St. Matthew Passion, which he revived in an epoch-making performance in 1829. St. Paul, op. 36, was his most popular work during his lifetime, receiving numerous performances throughout Europe. Robert Schumann praised its “indelible color of instrumentation,” and its “masterful playing with all the forms of the art of composition,” and he described it as “a jewel of the present.”

The CD is the latest release in the award-winning series of sacred choral music by Mendelssohn, interpreted by Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart.

A must for all lovers of romantic choral music.

Sacred Choral Works. Complete Recording 69,90 €

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:46:33 +0100

Mendelssohn’s oratorios, the complete motets, psalms, choral cantatas, all the smaller church works as well as the Lobgesang symphonic cantata – this box contains all the recordings made as part of the complete collection of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s sacred vocal music with the Kammerchor Stuttgart under the direction of Frieder Bernius.

The complete recording, which was made over more than two decades, was highly praised by the press and won many awards. Now Bernius’s masterful interpretations, displaying Mendelssohn’s sense of cantabile melody and differentiated harmony in a most refined, colorful and transparent manner, are available in a complete box set.

Christus. Kirchenwerke III from 19,90 €

Thu, 22 May 2025 06:34:19 +0200

In addition to works for a cappella choir, this recording also presents the Kyrie in D minor for choir and large orchestra, as well as Christus, the unfinished oratorio which together with St. Paul and Elijah was intended to form a trilogy of oratorios.

Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen. Kirchenwerke V (Bernius) 19,90 €