Baton Music

The romantic, picturesque and dramatic appeal of medieval Christianity furnished Richard Wagner, after 'Tannhäuser', with 'Lohengrin'. It's a romantic opera in three acts first performed in 1850 in We...

2 Piccolo Trumpets, 4 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 4 Trombones, 2 Tubas and Timpani 'Now thank we all our God' is a popular Christian hymn. It is a translation from the German 'Nun danket alle Gott', written ci...

Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, for Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the Overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Pr...

The opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is the lulla...

The 'Missa Solemnis in B flat' was Anton Anton Bruckner's first major work for choir and orchestra. In this transcription of the Agnus Dei, a brass choir of horns, Trumpets and trombones replaces the...

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed...

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), wrote an enormous amount of music in all the forms of his day except opera; today, only a few of his works are in the concert repertory, but these are very pop...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), wrote an enormous amount of music in all the forms of his day except opera; today, only a few of his works are in the concert repertory, but these are very pop...

In 1840 Felix Mendelssohn composed his 'Lobgesang' ('Hymn of Praise'), Op. 52. It's a 13-movement 'Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra'. Decades after Mendels...

In 1840 Felix Mendelssohn composed his 'Lobgesang' ('Hymn of Praise'), Op. 52. It's a 13-movement 'Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra'. Decades after Mendels...

Le compositeur français Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) a composé son "Requiem en ré mineur", opus 48, entre 1887 et 1890. Il est devenu la composition la plus connue de ses grandes œuvres. En sept mouvemen...

Le compositeur français Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) a composé son "Requiem en ré mineur", opus 48, entre 1887 et 1890. Il est devenu la composition la plus connue de ses grandes œuvres. En sept mouvemen...

Mozart's funeral motet Ave verum corpus was composed in june 1791 for Anton Stroll, choirmaster at the spa of Baden, near Vienna. Within a tiny span the music sounds an extraordinary depth of feeling,...

Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Choir and Concert Band 'Die Schöpfung' (The Creation) is an oratorio written between 1796 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn and considered by many to be his masterpiece. The oratorio depi...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between "Art-song" and "Folk-song". The melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

The Domine Deus from Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle is sung by the tenor in the Gloria of the mass.

The Domine Deus from Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle is sung by the tenor in the Gloria of the mass.

The cavatina Fac ut portem is the 7th movement from Rossini's Stabat Mater and sung by a mezzo-soprano.

The cavatina Fac ut portem is the 7th movement from Rossini's Stabat Mater and sung by a mezzo-soprano.

Pendant la majeure partie de sa carrière à Leipzig, Bach a composé environ une cantate par mois. Sur les 300 cantates qu'il a composées, environ 200 ont été conservées. "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" (J...

During most of his career in Leipzig Bach composed about one cantata per month. About 200 of the total 300 cantatas he created have been preserved. Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desir...

Among Charles Gounod's compositions are several hundred sacred solo songs, including his 1852 setting of the Catholic hymn "Ave Maria". Forty years later, Gounod, a devoutly religious albeit also a de...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote several settings of the 'Gloria'. RV 589 is the most familiar and popular piece of sacred music by Vivaldi. The 'Gloria RV 589' remained in a relatively unknown statu...