Baroque sacred music
Enjoy the most sublime sacred music ever written—including Bach's unsurpassed oratorios, poignant requiems by Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms, and Handel and Vivaldi's ebullient church music—performed by the world's best conductors, soloists, and orchestra
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The church played a prominent role in Baroque musical life, with many composers earning their living through their roles as cantor or organist. As the opera grew and developed with a focus on a wide variety of subjects, the forms of the cantata and the oratorio grew in parallel, treating religious themes. Like operas, oratorios were dramatic and narrative-driven, but in keeping with their more sober, ecclesiastical context, were performed without the opera's staged, theatrical components. The best-known Baroque oratorio composers today include Marc-Antoine Charpentier, J.S. Bach, and George Frideric Handel.