SKU: CA.3720911

ISBN 9790007214692. Language: German.

The composition of the cantata was probably completed on 16 November 1765. The subject of the cantata text is the fulfillment of the prophecy with Christ's birth. The author of the texts of the inner movements is unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3720900.

SKU: CA.4060149

ISBN 9790007219321. Key: F major. Text language: Latin.

Despite all of its folk-line simplicity of melody, Haydn's first mass contains a pious note that, just like its youthful verve, still was to hold fascination for him in his late years when, in 1805, he re-orchestrated his first work. The first version of the mass is considered to have been composed in 1749 or 1750. It was around the same time that Pope Benedict XIV treated questions concerning church music in his encyclical Annus qui in which he condemned the frequently operatic style of church music and demanded liturgical music that revealed an awareness of its religious purpose and that sought to fulfill it with simple means of musical expression. In its liturgical attitude Haydn's first mass is anchorded in this point of view (that to a great extent corresponded to the general standpoint of the churches of the eighteenth century). Score and part available separately - see item CA.4060100.

SKU: CA.3720913

ISBN 9790007214715. Language: German.

The composition of the cantata was probably completed on 16 November 1765. The subject of the cantata text is the fulfillment of the prophecy with Christ's birth. The author of the texts of the inner movements is unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3720900.

SKU: CA.3913900

ISBN 9790007167752. Language: German.

With the final verse of the Book of Daniel from the Old Testament and a related cantata text, Telemann mourns the death of a prominent, but until now unknown dignitary in a cantata marked by great intimacy and with exquisite instrumentation. Jakob Ditmar, the Kantor of the Nikolaikirche in Berlin, to whom we owe the survival of this work, contributed two beautiful chorale settings for a performance in 1757. First critical edition of this cantata.

SKU: FG.55011-348-0

ISBN 9790550113480.

Shiki began as a request for a short winter-themed piece for the Hamalais-Osakunnan Laulajat choir in Helsinki. It eventually grew into a four seasons-type cycle on haiku by a 20th century Japanese monk Santoka Taneda.
The music of Shiki is a progression through various states of near-stasis. The main impression the composer wished to convey was the one of absolute stillness at the heart of each scene, of communion with the outer world, as if the viewer were drawing the landscape into him, and at the same time dissolving himself into it. The voices are treated texturally, as well as textually, moving on slow masses, with the soft but precisecely colored vowels of Japanese creating the basic sounds, and the sharper consonants giving them shape and definition.

SKU: FG.042-08860-9

ISBN 979-0-042-08860-9.

The renowned symphonist Kalevi Aho, inspired by the modern poetry of Mirkka Rekola, here turns to an instrument rare for him, the mixed choir, in a song cycle premiered by the Radio Chamber Choir in May 1998.

SKU: CA.106000

ISBN 9790007000356. Key: G major. Language: German.