This thoughtful, delicate, dramatic and at times joyful Stabat Mater, is the vocal work that established Haydn throughout Europe as a great composer of religious music.

Carlo Francesco Badini (1715-1810) worked for a long time as a librettist at London's Italian opera house. In 1791, he wrote the text to Joseph Haydn's last opera L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euricice. In 1796 Badini collaborated once again with Haydn, resulting in two enchanting chamber duets for soprano, tenor and piano: Saper vorrei se m'ami and Guarda qui che lo vedrai, whose bucolic setting was very popular at the time. In this Henle Urtext edition, the detailed preface by the editor Marianne Helms offers information on the complex source situation and the publication of these duets.

English. With piano/organ accompaniment.

Latin/English.

Songlist: Kyrie (Hear Our Pray'r) Haydn, Gloria (Glorious) Haydn, Qui Tollis (Lord Why Hast Thou) Haydn, Quoniam Tu Solus (Sing With Joy) Haydn, Credo (Lord Thou Hast) Haydn, Et Incarnatus (O Lord,Rebuke) Haydn, Et Resurrexit (Thou Hast Maintain'd) Haydn, Sanctus (Holy) Haydn, Benedictus (He Is Blessed) Haydn, Agnus Dei (Lord, We Pray) Haydn, Dona Nobis (Hallelujah,Amen) Haydn

English.

Songlist: Father, forgive them (Haydn-7 Last Words), Verily, I say (Haydn-7 Last Words), Woman, behold (Haydn-7 Last Words), My God, my God! (Haydn-7 Last Words), I thirst (Haydn-7 Last Words), It is finished (Haydn-7 Last Words), Father, into Thy hands (Haydn-7 Last Words), He is no more (Haydn-7 Last Words)

Latin.

Songlist: Kyrie (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Gloria (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Qui Tollis (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Quoniam Tu Solus (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Credo (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Et Incarnatus (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Sanctus (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Benedictus (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War), Agnus Dei (Haydn-Mass In Time Of War)

Latin.

Songlist: Kyrie (Haydn), Gloria In Excelsis (Haydn), Gratias Agimus (Haydn), Domine Deus (Haydn), Quoniam Tu Solus (Haydn), Credo In Unum (Haydn), Et Incarnatus Est (Haydn), Et Resurrexit (Haydn), Benedictus (Haydn), Agnus Dei (Haydn), Sanctus (Haydn)

Latin.

Latin.

Latin.

Songlist: Kyrie (Haydn-Creation Mass), Gloria (Haydn-Creation Mass), Credo (Haydn-Creation Mass), Sanctus (Haydn-Creation Mass), Benedictus (Haydn-Creation Mass), Agnus Dei (Haydn-Creation Mass)

The Old Novello Edition of Franz Joseph Haydn's Creation oratorio.

This is probably the best of Haydn's early short masses, and certainly the most well-known. The Robbins Landon edition, based on the original performance materials, is now the standard, authoritative edition of this repertoire work.

Haydn's delightful Missa Brevis in F was both one of his earliest and latest works: he originally scored it for soloists, choir and strings, and returned to it at the end of his life to add wind parts. Either version may be performed using this new, authoritative edition, prepared by the Haydn scholar Denis McCaldin.

Scored for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass soli, SATB choir and orchestra. Haydn composed the Maria Theresa Mass in 1799, between the Creation and the Seasons. Revised edition by Michael Pilkington. Latin text.

Next to Handel's Messiah, The Creation is perhaps the most frequently performed oratorio. This edition is the first to present the English text as Haydn intended, without the modifications of twentieth-century editions, and is the version used by Haydn in his many public renditions of the work using large forces. The keyboard reduction in this edition is by the Leipzig Cantor A. E. Müller, termed 'the best (and) most idiomatic' by Haydn himself. Full details of sources and editorial method, as well as a bibliography, can be found in the full score.

This setting of the Te Deum, dedicated to the wife of Franz I of Austria, is a rare example of a work from Haydn's late period that doesn't feature soloists. The second of Haydn's Te Deum settings, the work was performed in September 1800 on the name-day of the wife of Haydn's patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy II, and it features the C major tonality and extensive use of trumpets and drums that were often associated with festive ceremony.

Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo dates from c.1775 and was written for the Order of the Brothers of Mercy based in Eisenstadt. The mass is known for its distinctive 'Benedictus', which features elaborate soprano writing and an extensive obbligato organ part from which the work's alternative title, 'Little Organ Mass', derives. This edition includes the elongated 'Gloria' composed by Haydn's younger brother Michael, with Haydn's 31-bar original included as an Appendix.

Songlist: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Haydn's Missa in Tempore Belli was composed in 1796 for SATB chorus and soloists with orchestra. It is one of the finest of the six Hermenegild masses that, together with The Creation and The Seasons, represent the crowning glory of Haydn's final creative period. Although the work was originally written for relatively modest orchestral forces, the wind scoring was expanded when it was performed to great acclaim in Vienna in late 1796. This critical edition by Dr David Russell Hulme is the first to include both the original and Viennese scorings, and the vocal score contains a specially prepared piano reduction that provides a full and practical representation of the instrumental textures and clearly identifies the additional Viennese material.