SKU: CA.2703609
ISBN 9790007199210. Key: D major. Language: Latin.
The only surviving mass by Nicolai is a very important contribution to church music. It is characterized by its structural variety and its singability. At the same time it offers a genuine alternative to other settings of the Mass for worship services. The Carus Urtext edition renders the final Viennese version of this cheerful, festive mass. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.2703600.
SKU: CA.1035209
ISBN 9790007025342. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.1035200.
SKU: CA.3913709
ISBN 9790007216078. Language: German.
The cantata cycle Die Tageszeiten, which was composed in Hamburg in 1757, is one of the outstanding late works of Georg Philipp Telemann. A Symphonie and four cantatas (each of which consists of an aria, accompagnato, aria, and chorus) portray, in a richly sensitive manner, the course of a day, beginning with the awakening of nature to the sunset. The poetry of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae and Telemann's music herald the beauty of nature, as well as the greatness of God revealed within it. Colorful instrumentation and pictures in sound corresponding to each time of the day, delicate compositional structure, and an ingenious realization of the text characterize this work, whose musical idiom is at times reminiscent of Haydn. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3913700.
SKU: CA.4005809
ISBN 9790007083915. Language: Latin.
Contents: Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) in C major Confitebor (Ps 110) in E minor Beatus vir (Ps 111) in B flat major Laudate pueri (Ps 112) in F major Laudate Dominum (Ps 116) in A major Magnificat in C major (all pieces also available seperately). Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4005800.
SKU: CA.5034809
ISBN 9790007081508. 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 parts available separately - see item CA.5034800.
SKU: CA.3107609
ISBN 9790007044930. Key: C major / a minor. Language: German/English.
The cantata Die Himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes (The heavens are telling of God in glory) BWV 76 by Johann Sebastian Bach was written for the 2nd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on 6 June 1723 in the year it was first performed. This ambitious two-part work was the second cantata which Bach wrote after taking up the position of Kantor of St. Thomas's in Leipzig. Bach's aim was evidently to demonstrate a particularly wide range of musical forms in both the arias and the recitatives in this cantata. The opening chorus is based on verses 2 and 4 of Psalm 19, with verse 4 structured as a choral fugue. Both parts of the cantata end with a chorale movement with different verses from the Lutheran hymn Es woll uns Gott genadig sein. The text refers loosely to the epistle reading from the 1st letter of St John, but deals more with general thoughts about the temptations of the Christian which can be overcome through love. Bach also performed the first part of the cantata later with minor revisions, but evidently no alterations to the text, on Reformation Day in Leipzig. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3107600.
SKU: CA.5401309
ISBN 9790007225865. Language: Latin.
The thirty or so settings of the Mass by Johann Michael Haydn (Joseph's younger brother) are masterpieces of their class, and were greatly loved during his lifetime. As part of its Urtext complete edition Carus now presents the Missa Sancti Cyrilli et Methodii. This composition of 1758 is an early work, still written in the baroque stylistic tradition of the southern German region, Out it also reveals subjective inspiration which separates it from many mass settings by Haydn's contemporaries. With this mass dedicated to the Slavic apostles Cyrill and Methodius it is possible that Haydn applied for a position in Brno and it actually appears as if the 21-year-old composer wanted to present a masterpiece demonstrating his skills. This mass is published here in the first edition. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.5401300.
SKU: CA.4068309
ISBN 9790007220273. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
The Missa pastoralis in C, published here for the first time, dates from about 1808. It belongs to a cycle of sacred pieces, a ,,Cursus sacro-harmonicus, which Ryba planned as Ordinarium and Proprium settings for all the Sundays and feast days of the church year. The Missa pastoralis in C is a pastoral Mass for the matutinal service at Christmas. As in the Missa Pastoralis in B flat, in this Mass Ryba makes use of concertante instruments: trumpet and a bassoon, an instrument seldom employed solistically in a Mass, but which gives this work a unique character. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4068300.
SKU: CA.3114759
ISBN 9790007208479. Language: German/English.
Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3114700.
SKU: CA.4068319
ISBN 9790007138158. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.3910719
ISBN 9790007139261. Key: F major. Language: German/English.
An impressive festive cantata with a solo trumpet part and three powerful choruses; a work in which Telemann proves himself a brilliant and imaginative architect of musical grand form. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3910700.
SKU: CA.3910712
ISBN 9790007055370. Key: F major. Language: German/English.
An impressive festive cantata with a solo trumpet part and three powerful choruses; a work in which Telemann proves himself a brilliant and imaginative architect of musical grand form. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3910700.
SKU: CA.3910713
ISBN 9790007055387. Key: F major. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4068312
ISBN 9790007220297. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
The Missa pastoralis in C, published here for the first time, dates from about 1808. It belongs to a cycle of sacred pieces, a ,,Cursus sacro-harmonicus, which Ryba planned as Ordinarium and Proprium settings for all the Sundays and feast days of the church year. The Missa pastoralis in C is a pastoral Mass for the matutinal service at Christmas. As in the Missa Pastoralis in B flat, in this Mass Ryba makes use of concertante instruments: trumpet and a bassoon, an instrument seldom employed solistically in a Mass, but which gives this work a unique character. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4068300.
SKU: CA.4068313
ISBN 9790007220303. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.3114709
ISBN 9790007208417. Key: C major. Language: German/English. Text: Franck, Salomo. Text: Salomo Franck.
Original form of the later BWV 147, composed in Weimar. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3114700.
SKU: CA.4068311
ISBN 9790007220280. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.3910711
ISBN 9790007055363. Key: F major. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.3910714
ISBN 9790007055394. Key: F major. Language: German/English.
SKU: BA.BA04562-41
ISBN 9790006546633. 24 x 17.5 cm inches. Language: Italian. Giambattista Varesco.
This separately published Critical Commentary offers extensive information on the genesis, reception, sources, and readings of the works included in the music volume.
SKU: CA.4061409
ISBN 9790007073497. Key: C minor. Language: Latin.
Score available separately - see item CA.4061400.
SKU: CA.4061309
ISBN 9790007073411. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
Score available separately - see item CA.4061300.
SKU: CA.3710509
ISBN 9790007214333. Language: German. Text: Buschmann, Ernst August. Text: Ernst August Buschmann.
After the Passions-Cantate ,,Ein Lammlein geht und tragt die Schuld of 1775, the Christmas Oratorio is the second major vocal work by Homilius to appear in print during his lifetime. With an unusually large instrumental contingent, Homilius set the, at that time, much beloved pastoral theme of the shepherds in a most sophisticated manner. Each movement presents a clearly differentiated, atmospheric scene, distinct from all the other movements. This applies to the varied pastoral music, as well as to the representation of the mighty God by an angel, whose entrance is accompanied by trumpets and timpani. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3710500.
SKU: CA.3910705
ISBN 9790007055349. Key: F major. Language: German/English.
An impressive festive cantata with a solo trumpet part and three powerful choruses; a work in which Telemann proves himself a brilliant and imaginative architect of musical grand form. Score available separately - see item CA.3910700.
SKU: CA.4068305
ISBN 9790007112486. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
The Missa pastoralis in C, published here for the first time, dates from about 1808. It belongs to a cycle of sacred pieces, a ,,Cursus sacro-harmonicus, which Ryba planned as Ordinarium and Proprium settings for all the Sundays and feast days of the church year. The Missa pastoralis in C is a pastoral Mass for the matutinal service at Christmas. As in the Missa Pastoralis in B flat, in this Mass Ryba makes use of concertante instruments: trumpet and a bassoon, an instrument seldom employed solistically in a Mass, but which gives this work a unique character. Score available separately - see item CA.4068300.
SKU: CA.4067809
ISBN 9790007076481. Language: Czech/German.
The Missa pastoralis bohemica (Bohemian Shepherds' Mass), composed in 1796 by Mozart's contemporary Jakub Jan Ryba, is the most significant of the so-called Czech Christmas Masses. These are masses in a folkloristic style, in which the individual movements consist of a series of vocal-instrumental scenes in the Czech language; their topic is the birth of Christ and they are performed during the Christmas service. The story is about four Czech shepherds to whom the birth of Christ is announced, whereupon they visit the child in the manger. Ryba's mass became so famous that it is regarded - even today - as a symbol of Czech Christmas. The present critical edition represents the first edition of the work in its original form and the original keys; it contains a singable alternate text in German. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4067800.
SKU: CA.4068300
ISBN 9790007087319. Key: C major. Language: Latin.
The Missa pastoralis in C, published here for the first time, dates from about 1808. It belongs to a cycle of sacred pieces, a ,,Cursus sacro-harmonicus, which Ryba planned as Ordinarium and Proprium settings for all the Sundays and feast days of the church year. The Missa pastoralis in C is a pastoral Mass for the matutinal service at Christmas. As in the Missa Pastoralis in B flat, in this Mass Ryba makes use of concertante instruments: trumpet and a bassoon, an instrument seldom employed solistically in a Mass, but which gives this work a unique character.
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.
