It is both regrettable and incomprehensible that Louis Spohr is virtually unknown today as a composer of oratorios, as he was extremely highly regarded as such by his contemporaries. Among... more

Johann Sebastian Bach's incomplete surviving works have a very special appeal. The music seems to be within our grasp and yet it still leaves us puzzled. What might these works have sounded... more

In his Mass in A flat, Schubert set himself the great task of composing a "Missa solemnis", as he later entitled the work. As with the Mass he wrote in the last year of his life, he severed the bonds... more

Homage to the powerful was nothing unusual in the Baroque era; Thomas Selle, however, took it a bit further: he paid tribute to several members of his prince's family with musical "Laudationes. Selle... more