Baton Music

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...

The oratorio 'Mors et Vita' (Death and Life) is the continuation of 'The Redemption' and was the second of a proposed trilogy of oratorios written on commission by Charles Gounod for the Birmingham Fe...

The "Stabat Mater" is the best known work of Giovanni Pergolesi's. It was commissioned by the "Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo" who presented an annual Good Friday meditation in ho...

The "Stabat Mater" is the best known work of Giovanni Pergolesi's. It was commissioned by the "Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo" who presented an annual Good Friday meditation in ho...

The "Stabat Mater" is the best known work of Giovanni Pergolesi's. It was commissioned by the "Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo" who presented an annual Good Friday meditation in ho...

The "Stabat Mater" is the best known work of Giovanni Pergolesi's. It was commissioned by the "Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo" who presented an annual Good Friday meditation in ho...

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...

Renowned as the composer of such operas as 'La Boheme', 'Tosca' and 'Madame Butterfly', Giacomo Puccini began his musical career in the composition of church music. 'Messa di Gloria' was written by Pu...

Renowned as the composer of such operas as 'La Boheme', 'Tosca' and 'Madame Butterfly', Giacomo Puccini began his musical career in the composition of church music. 'Messa di Gloria' was written by Pu...

'Vesperae solennes de Confessore', KV 339, is a sacred work composed in 1780 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was composed for liturgical use in the Salzburg Cathedral. 'Laudate Dominum' is the 5th move...

'Vesperae solennes de Confessore', KV 339, is a sacred work composed in 1780 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was composed for liturgical use in the Salzburg Cathedral. 'Laudate Dominum' is the 5th move...

Mozart komponierte die 'Krönungsmesse' 1779 als'Missa brevis'; es ist eine der beliebtesten seiner 17 Vertonungen des Messordinariums. Ihren Beinamen erhielt die Messe erst im 19. Jahrhundert, da sie...

Mozart composed The Coronation Mass (Krönungsmesse KV 317) in 1779. It's one of the most popular of his 17 extant settings of the "Ordinary of the Mass". This setting, like the majority of Mozart's ma...

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of church music and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. The 'Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile' dates from...

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of church music and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. The 'Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile' dates from...

Zur Feier der Grundsteinlegung des neuen Linzer Mariä-Empfängnis-Doms wurde Anton Bruckner mit der Komposition einer Kantate beauftragt. Das 'Angelusläuten' ist ein Satz aus dieser festlichen Kantate...

Neben Opern und Balletten komponierte Léo Delibes auch geistliche Werke wie die bekannte 'Messe brêve'. Im Original für Kinderstimmen und Orgel konzipiert, wird sie auch oft mit Frauenstimmen aufgefüh...

Neben Opern und Balletten komponierte Léo Delibes auch geistliche Werke wie die bekannte 'Messe brêve'. Im Original für Kinderstimmen und Orgel konzipiert, wird sie auch oft mit Frauenstimmen aufgefüh...

Cesar Franck komponierte die Messe op. 12 1872. In den fünften Satz baute er die Strophe'Sacris solemniis' für Tenor, Harfe, Cello und Orgel ein, die mit den Worten'Panis Angelicus' (''Brot der Engel'...

Belgian composer César Franck (omposed his Mass, Opus 12 in 1872. In the fifth movement of this mass he incorporated the strophe of "Sacris solemniis" that begins with the words "Panis angelicus" (bre...

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of church music and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. The 'Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile' dates from...

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of church music and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. The 'Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile' dates from...

Giulio Caccini (1551-1618), was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer. Caccini is mostly known for his 'Ave Maria'. This hauntingly beautiful 16th century melody was virtual...

Giulio Caccini (1551-1618), was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer. Caccini is mostly known for his 'Ave Maria'. This hauntingly beautiful 16th century melody was virtual...