Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc, CG 74 (Score) Ballad for chorus and orchestra “ Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik

“ Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik 1/1991

Prelude in E minor BWV 555

The technical demands made on the vocal soloists (and also on the instrumentalists) are no greater in the soli than in the tutti sections

Bach’s cantata BWV 26 belongs to the Leipzig cycle of chorale cantatas

Ricercar a 6

Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc, CG 74 (Score) Ballad for chorus and orchestra “ Württembergische Blätter für KirchenmusikGounods Messe la mmoire de Jeanne dArc was composed in 1887 for a festive mass in Reims to commemorate the arrival of the national heroine in the city on the occasion of the coronation of Charles VII in 1429. Performed a cappella or only accompanied by an organ, vast stretches of the work are in an archaic style in the tradition of Palestrina. The royal procession into the cathedral is conveyed in the splendid Prlude at the beginning, which was