Anniversary,
Carus Anniversary Publications
This year marks the anniversary of three noteworthy choral composers. To celebrate, Carus are highlighting their most important editions of Giacomo Puccini, Gabriel Fauré, and Anton Bruckner works. Find more details of the composer anniversaries and browse the entire Carus promotion below.
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One of the foremost French composers of his generation, Gabriel Fauré's musical style influenced many twentieth-century composers. Thanks to his work as a church musician, he composed a great amount of sacred choral music. Although favouring more intimate chamber music scorings, the composer is also well regarded for his larger choral works – including the Cantique de Racine and the atmospheric Requiem.
Carus's practical choral collection Musique religieuse contains all of Gabriel Fauré’s shorter, small-scale sacred works for choir and ensemble. This collection in combination with the Requiem, means that Faure’s complete sacred works are available from Carus.
Musique religieuse contains all the smaller-scale choral and ensemble works by the French master, as well as previously unpublished original arrangements for orchestra and chamber ensemble.
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Version for symphony orchestra. The Requiem of Gabriel Fauré is undoubtedly the most important opus among the sacred works of this French master. Beginning with the first performances during the composer’s lifetime, it is one of those works whose popularity has never waned.
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Late-Romantic, Austrian composer Anton Bruckner is perhaps best known for his symphonies and sacred music, helping to define contemporary musical radicalism in the nineteenthcentury. 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. All of Bruckner's masses, the complete liturgical music, his late works for choir and orchestra and also his exciting secular choral repertoire have been published by Carus, including their two choral collections of secular and sacred choral music.
As well as numerous motets, Bruckner composed three masses, a Requiem, the Missa solemnis in B flat and a setting of the Te Deum. The Te Deum is one of the most popular and frequently performed choral-symphonic works in the entire repertoire. His ceremonial Mass in E minor is especially fascinating for its scoring, written for eight-part choir and accompanied solely by wind instruments.
At times Romantic, at other times with a jazzy touch, the Choral collection Bruckner: Secular Choral Music is full of exciting discoveries and new arrangements at various levels of difficulty.
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Great art in small forms – Bruckner's smaller sacred works reveal a more personal side to the master symphonist and creator of large-scale orchestral masses.
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Giacomo Puccini, born in Lucca, in 1858, is one of the most performed composers on the international opera stage. His most renowned works are La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (1924), all of which are among the most frequently performed and recorded of all operas. Carus have published a large selection of Puccini's choral oeuvre and have recently released an impressive early work by Puccini, I figli d'Italia bella, previously considered lost to time.
Puccini wrote the cantata I figli d’Italia bella in 1877 for a competition held by the province of Lucca. Considered lost for many years, a set of parts turned up about twenty years ago with the vocal solo missing. Subsequently, the cantata was only performed with a reconstructed solo part. Then in 2019, an anonymous and previously unattributed manuscript was identified as an autograph of Puccini. It became clear that this was the missing complete score!
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