Michael Steinberg is a widely admired writer, critic, lecturer and teacher. For many years, he wrote program notes for the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Boston Symphony. He was music critic for The Boston Globe, wrote liner notes for all the major classical record labels, and was on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.

• Introduction A Word to Nonbelievers--and Believers Adams: Harmonium Bach Introduction Bach: The Passions Bach: Saint John Passion Bach: Saint Matthew Passion Bach: Magnificat Bach: Mass in B minor Beethoven: Missa solemnis Berlioz: Requiem Brahms Introduction Brahms: A German Requiem Brahms: The Shorter Choral Works Brahms: Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) Brahms: N:anie (Threnody) Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Britten: War Requiem Cherubini: Requiem in C minor Dallapiccola: Canti di prigonia (Songs of Imprisonment) Dvorák: Stabat mater Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius Fauré: Requiem Handel: Messiah Handel-Mozart: Messiah Haydn: Introduction Haydn: The Oratorios Haydn: The Creation Haydn: The Seasons Haydn: Harmoniemesse (Wind-Band Mass) Honegger: Le Roi David (King David) Janácek: Glagolilic Mass Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) Mozart Introduction Mozart: Mass in C minor Mozart: Requiem Orff: Carmina burana Rachmaninoff: The Bells Schmidt: Das Buch mit dieben Siegelm (The Book With Seven Seals) Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd Stravinsky Introduction Stravinsky: Canticum acrum Stravinsky: Persephone Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Stravinsky: The Wedding Tippett: A Child of Our Time Vaughan Williams Introduction Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony Verdi: Requiem Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

What sets Steinberg's writing apart is its appealing mixture of impregnable authority (he knows this music) and purely personal asides (by the end of the book, we know this man). Choral Masterworks can be read by anybody, from a professional musician to any young listener newly braced by the stoic pessimism of the Brahms 'German Requiem'."

Michael Steinberg is a widely admired writer, critic, lecturer and teacher. For many years, he wrote program notes for the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Boston Symphony. He was music critic for The Boston Globe, wrote liner notes for all the major classical record labels, and was on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.

• Introduction A Word to Nonbelievers--and Believers Adams: Harmonium Bach Introduction Bach: The Passions Bach: Saint John Passion Bach: Saint Matthew Passion Bach: Magnificat Bach: Mass in B minor Beethoven: Missa solemnis Berlioz: Requiem Brahms Introduction Brahms: A German Requiem Brahms: The Shorter Choral Works Brahms: Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) Brahms: N:anie (Threnody) Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Britten: War Requiem Cherubini: Requiem in C minor Dallapiccola: Canti di prigonia (Songs of Imprisonment) Dvorák: Stabat mater Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius Fauré: Requiem Handel: Messiah Handel-Mozart: Messiah Haydn: Introduction Haydn: The Oratorios Haydn: The Creation Haydn: The Seasons Haydn: Harmoniemesse (Wind-Band Mass) Honegger: Le Roi David (King David) Janácek: Glagolilic Mass Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) Mozart Introduction Mozart: Mass in C minor Mozart: Requiem Orff: Carmina burana Rachmaninoff: The Bells Schmidt: Das Buch mit dieben Siegelm (The Book With Seven Seals) Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd Stravinsky Introduction Stravinsky: Canticum acrum Stravinsky: Persephone Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Stravinsky: The Wedding Tippett: A Child of Our Time Vaughan Williams Introduction Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony Verdi: Requiem Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

What sets Steinberg's writing apart is its appealing mixture of impregnable authority (he knows this music) and purely personal asides (by the end of the book, we know this man). Choral Masterworks can be read by anybody, from a professional musician to any young listener newly braced by the stoic pessimism of the Brahms 'German Requiem'."

Michael Steinberg is a widely admired writer, critic, lecturer and teacher. For many years, he wrote program notes for the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Boston Symphony. He was music critic for The Boston Globe, wrote liner notes for all the major classical record labels, and was on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.

• Introduction A Word to Nonbelievers--and Believers Adams: Harmonium Bach Introduction Bach: The Passions Bach: Saint John Passion Bach: Saint Matthew Passion Bach: Magnificat Bach: Mass in B minor Beethoven: Missa solemnis Berlioz: Requiem Brahms Introduction Brahms: A German Requiem Brahms: The Shorter Choral Works Brahms: Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) Brahms: N:anie (Threnody) Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Britten: War Requiem Cherubini: Requiem in C minor Dallapiccola: Canti di prigonia (Songs of Imprisonment) Dvorák: Stabat mater Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius Fauré: Requiem Handel: Messiah Handel-Mozart: Messiah Haydn: Introduction Haydn: The Oratorios Haydn: The Creation Haydn: The Seasons Haydn: Harmoniemesse (Wind-Band Mass) Honegger: Le Roi David (King David) Janácek: Glagolilic Mass Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) Mozart Introduction Mozart: Mass in C minor Mozart: Requiem Orff: Carmina burana Rachmaninoff: The Bells Schmidt: Das Buch mit dieben Siegelm (The Book With Seven Seals) Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd Stravinsky Introduction Stravinsky: Canticum acrum Stravinsky: Persephone Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Stravinsky: The Wedding Tippett: A Child of Our Time Vaughan Williams Introduction Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony Verdi: Requiem Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

What sets Steinberg's writing apart is its appealing mixture of impregnable authority (he knows this music) and purely personal asides (by the end of the book, we know this man). Choral Masterworks can be read by anybody, from a professional musician to any young listener newly braced by the stoic pessimism of the Brahms 'German Requiem'."