A new premium product is available from Carus: with Vocal scores XL important choral works are now offered in reader-friendly large print. Choral singers can enjoy the clear-to-read music text and high-quality presentation of Carus vocal scores in larger print. The music paper also contributes to their excellent legibility. Vocal scores XL will help all choral singers who find reading small-sized notes and text tiring, and will contribute to relaxed singing.
With its tonal language of subjective avowal, the first of Beethoven’s two masses opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical texts of the Mass which are expressly modern and point towards the future. Not to be considered a preliminary work to the Missa solemnis, it is an entirely independent work which set standards for the further development of settings of the Mass in the 19th century. Its newness, of which the composer himself was fully aware (“I do not speak gladly of my Mass, or of myself, but I do believe that I have treated the text in a manner in which only few have treated it.”), paves a way to an hitherto unknown, contemporary avenue to faith which today is still current. Carus presents this important work of church music history in a new critical edition by the Beethoven expert Ernst Herttrich.
- ISMN: 9790007183547 (M007183547)
