Münchinger, Karl

The Ultimate wedding album your complete vocal and instrumental music guide ( Recording )
2 editions published in 1995 in German and held by 272 libraries worldwide
The Ultimate wedding album is a guide for creating the perfect musical setting for your wedding. It offers a selection of familiar favorites divided into Preludes, Processionals, General music for the ceremony, and Recessionals. Planning tips for the wedding are also included.

Cantatas Cantaten by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
11 editions published between 1985 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 220 libraries worldwide

Brandenburg concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
32 editions published between 1950 and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 197 libraries worldwide

St. Matthew passion by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
31 editions published between 1965 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 181 libraries worldwide
Although Bach wrote four (or five) settings of the Passions only two have survived; the St. Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion) and the St John Passion. The St. Matthew Passion was probably first performed on Good Friday (11 April) 1727 in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where Bach was the Kantor of the School and Directoris Chori musici of Leipzig. He revised it by 1736, performing it again on 30 March 1736, this time including two organs in the instrumentation. He further revised and performed it again on 24 March 1742. Considered to be one of the greatest pieces of sacred music in Western music, it has been recorded many times, and this version, recorded in July 1964 has remained one of the reference recordings of the work, not least for the inclusion of Fritz Wunderlich as performer of the tenor arias, as well as the rest of the supreme vocal cast which includes Pears, Prey, Ameling and Krause. Booklet notes are by the producer of this recording, the great Ray Minshull, and full texts, together with a new English translation are included.

Musical offering (arr. Münchinger) by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
25 editions published between 1960 and 1991 in 4 languages and held by 180 libraries worldwide

The #1 Bach album by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2003 in German and held by 159 libraries worldwide

Easter oratorio BWV.249 by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
11 editions published between 1965 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 153 libraries worldwide

The creation by Joseph Haydn ( Recording )
23 editions published between 1967 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 150 libraries worldwide
The Creation is Haydn's masterpiece, based on a lifetime of experience and reflecting the happy confidence of the eighteenth century. Although there are moments that presage the nineteenth century, it has none of the agonising of the Romantic period. Three years from the end of the eighteenth century it is a summation and celebration of that century's ideals by one of its greatest figures. The story is unfolded by three soloists, whose names, taken from Milton, were supplied by the Baron Van Swieten: Gabriel (soprano), Uriel (tenor) and Raphael (bass). Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo is a short mass in the Viennese tradition, although it is thought that it was composed for the Convent Chapel of the Eisenstadt Chapter Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo is a short mass in the Viennese tradition, although it is thought that it was composed for the Convent Chapel of the Eisenstadt Chapter of the Brothers of Mercy (Barmherzige Brüder), with which order Haydn had long been on friendly terms (the Viennese Chapter had given the first Vienna performance of his Stabat Mater in 1767). St. John of God is the patron saint of this order, to whom the Mass is dedicated; the Order's hospital at Eisenstadt, and the tiny Chapel in which this Mass was first performed, still exist and are in regular use. These recordings by Karl Münchinger were the only two of Haydn's sacred works recorded with the Wiener Philharmoniker and received wide critical acclaim on their first release and have long been out of circulation in their CD transfers on Decca's 'Ovation' series.

Christmas oratorio, BWV 248. Weihnachts-Oratorium by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
30 editions published between 1967 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 141 libraries worldwide

Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 Cantata no. 10, BWV 10 by Johann Sebastian Bach ( Recording )
8 editions published between 1969 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 141 libraries worldwide