Par GARCIA JOSE MAURICIO NUNES. Garcia, born in 1767 in Rio de Janeiro, and priest and music director at the cathedral there, is still hardly known. Among his spiritual works are four settings of the Mass for the Dead. The present „Missa dos Defunktos“ was commissioned by the Portuguese King Dom Joao VI in the memory of Queen Maria I, who died in 1816. The composition, in the key of D minor, shows parallels in several places to Mozart’s Requiem, which Garcia performed two years later [1819] for the first time in Brasil. / Requiem / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Flûtes Traversières,

The 20 year old Berlioz wrote his Messe solennelle in 1824 his first large scale work for chorus and orchestra. His later Memoirs suggest he burnt the manuscript due to his doubts about its quality. However the manuscript had made its way to Antwerp and the Church of St Carolus-Borromeus where it was catalogued by church officials probably in 1956. But it was not until 1991 when Franz Moors a retired teacher organist and choir master discovered it in a wooden chest on the organ platform and gradually began to realise its status as a work of some significance. The work was published by Bärenreiter in the 'New Berlioz Edition' and modern premieres were givenduring 1993 and 1994. Urtext of the New Berlioz Edition Full score (BA5463) vocal score (BA5463-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP333) available for sale Performance material (BA5463-72) available for hire

Dramma per musica in three acts-On 29 January 1781 Idomeneo K. 366 received its first performance at the Cuvilliés-Theater in Munich. It was Mozart?s second opera for the Munich court the first being his opera buffa La finta giardiniera of 1775.Apparently the Munich court itself chose the subject-matter of the new opera: the tragedy Idoménée by Antoine Danchet in André Campra?s operatic setting of 1712. It also provided detailed written instructions as to how the material was to be reworked into an Italian opera libretto. These instructions the ?plan? as Mozart and his father referred to them in their correspondence has unfortunatelydisappeared.Urtext of the New Mozart EditionFull score (BA4562-01) vocal score (BA4562-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP322) available for salePerformance material available for hire (BA4562-72)

Klavierauszug-Antonio Vivaldi's Magnificat in G minor for SATB and Piano.The office as a priest and the long years as musical director of the Ospedale della Piet (a large orphonage in Venice) both occasioned and inspired him to compose church music in large variety. The Magnificat RV 160 has come down to us in two versions. The first version is dominated by the choral concept in the second version the texts of Et exultavit Quia respexit Quia fecit Esurientes and Sicut locutus est are each given new and extended solo arias that as the manuscripts reveals were tailored to voices of girls from the Ospedale who are mentioned by name in the autograph.

Mozarts fragment in the version completed by Joseph Eybler und Franz Xaver Süßmayr-Requiem K.626 The Requiem completed by Franz Xaver S?ssmayr in its traditional form.Mozart’s final work the Requiem K.626 was left incomplete and it is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music sorrow at the great composer’s early death truth and legend fragments and attempts to complete the work.The completion of the fragmentary score by his assistant Franz Xaver S?ssmayr who helped him with The Magic Flute has the character of a historical source with utmost closeness to Mozart’s thoughts.- Urtext of the New MozartEdition- Full score (BA4538-01) performance material (BA4538) vocal score (BA4538-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP152) available for sale- Facsimile edition BVK2346

Set of Wind Parts-We know that Mozart held his Vespers in high regard since he once asked his father in a letter dated 12 March 1783 to send the two works to him in Vienna so that he could show them to Baron Gottfried van Swieten. The Office hymns designated as Vesperae de Dominica K. 321 and Vesperae Solennes De Confessore K. 339 both call for four Vocal parts two Violins two Clarini Kettledrums Basses (Violoncello Double Bass and Bassoon) three Trombones and Organ.They contain settings of Psalms 109 (Dixit) 110 (Confitebor) 111 (Beatus vir) 112 (Laudate pueri) 116 (Laudate Dominum) and of the Magnificat canticle. Each of the Psalms forms anautonomous unit; the Doxology at the end is derived from the themes of the various Psalms.Urtext of the New Mozart EditionPerformance material (BA4894) vocal score (BA4894-90) available for sale

Wiemer, Wolfgang (Arr.) - Br Jcfb E 1. Par BACH JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH. Nicht nur die Musiker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts haben - schon aus liturgischen Gründen - immer wieder Vertonungen des Bußpsalms 50 [51] vorgelegt. Auch noch in späterer, säkularisierterer Zeit pflegten gelegentlich Komponisten diese Tradition, so der 'Bückeburger' Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach mit seiner 12-sätzigen Komposition von etwa 1770, die erst 1975 entdeckt wurde. Fast nur in B-Tonarten angesiedelt, besteht Bachs 'Miserere' aus einem ausgewogenen Wechsel von Chor- und Soloabschnitten. Gemeinsames Stilmerkmal aller Teile sind vor allem die reich verwendeten 'empfindsamen' Vorhaltsbildungen und kleinen Ziernoten. Als Beispiel des vorklassischen Zeitalters eignetsich die Komposition gut für epochenübergreifende Programme mit Fasten- und Bußkompositionen. / Date parution : 1991-09-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Violons, Alto et Bas

Kantate Zum 3. Sonntag Nach Trinitatis. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach composed BWV 135 as the fourth cantata in the second annual cycle of Leipzig cantatas. The hymn 'Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder' was written in the 16th century to the tune of 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen'. The unidentified Leipzig librettist of the 2nd cycle of chorale cantatas made free use of this hymn as the basis of an exemplary cantata text. / Date parution : 2005-05-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Violons,

Oratorio in three parts-In quite characteristic fashion for the times Handel’s opera “Alessandro” looks at various episodes in the life and rule of Alexander the Great (356 323 BC). This legendary warrior and military commander conquered large parts of the world before meeting an untimely end at the age of 32. A central conflict in Handel’s opera is Alessandro being in love with two women Lisaura and Rossane who compete for his favour. In addition his claim to be of divine parentage is underlined occasioning him to demand the subservience of his followers which meets with vigorous disapproval.Handel composed “Alessandro” for the Royal Academyof Music to a libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli in the 1725/26 season. The work was premiered at the King’s Theatre in London on 5 May 1726. “Alessandro” was the first of five operas for the Royal Academy operas which saw Handel compose for three of the most famous singers of his time: Francesco Bernardi (called Senesino) Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.Ortensio Mauro’s libretto “La superbia d’Alessandro ” which was performed for the first time in Hanover in 1690 in a musical setting by Agostino Steffani and staged again in the city the following year under the title “Il zelo di Leonato” but with numerous alterations served as the source text for Handel’s “Alessandro”. One of the main aspects Rolli had to consider when preparing the libretto for the London performances was to keep the roles of the famous singers of the Royal Academy well balanced yet at the same time to engineer a musical contest between the prima donnas Cuzzoni and Bordoni (Lisaura and Rossane) as well. From a business point of view it made good sense for such rivalry would surely increase public interest in the opera.It is no longer possible to ascertain which changes Handel made during the following performance series of the 1727/28 season. For the performance series of 1732/33 Handel made substantial revisions to the opera: six numbers were deleted in their entirety the finale in part as well and the recitatives were made much shorter with the parts of Cleone and Leonato omitted

Today the Gloria RV 589 (BA 7674) is one of Vivaldi?s best-known compositions and one of the most frequently performed sacred vocal works from the Baroque period.Vivaldi wrote the ?Gloria? as a self-contained work in the style of a concertante mass. However it was probably also performed within church services. The scoring of the solo voices (SSA) suggests that the work was written during his period at the Ospedale della Piet around 1716. In the twelve movements of the ?Gloria? Vivaldi displays the whole range of his mastery from festive sublime outer movements to tender transparently scored solopassages.The same mastery has also been applied to the ? Kyrie? RV 587 (BA 8950) scored for two choirs and two groups of stringed instruments. The date of its composition remains unclear. It is a purely a choral work without solo passages.Both works can be performed independently but can also be combined as a kind of short mass. Although the authenticity of the autograph manuscript score is beyond doubt these new editions contain some re-evaluations in phrasing and performance practice which go beyond what other editions have to offer. The Piano reductions are straightforward clearly presented and preserve the character of the works.- Attractive choral pieces which can be combined to form a short mass.- Vocal score as well as choral score available for the ?Gloria?.- Informative foreword (Ger/Eng).

Mozart’s famous and beloved “Laudate Dominum” from the Vesperae solennes de Confessore (K.339) is now available as a separate movement with performance material and a vocal score.This melodious setting of the text from Psalm 116 captivates with the simplicity of its soprano solo whose pastoral flavor returns when the words “Gloria patri” are repeated by the chorus.Thanks to its straightforward compositional fabric the soprano solo can easily be sung by a member of the chorus thereby making this effective piece ideal for small church choirs.- Urtext from the “New Mozart Edition”- Straightforward andeasy-to-play piano reduction- Full score parts (BA5339) and vocal score (BA5339-90) available for sale