 It is also used for concerts of sacred music, of local groups and for concerts of the Rheingau Musik Festival, such as a performance of the Huelgas Ensemble.In 1999, combined choirs of Geisenheim and St. Martin, Idstein, performed Giacomo Puccini's "Messa di Gloria" and, in 2001, Rutter's "Requiem" and Benjamin Britten's "The Company of Heaven" for speakers, soloists, chorus and orchestra (1937, not performed again until 1989).In 2009, the Neue Rheingauer Kantorei performed Haydn's "Die Schöpfung" with soloists Elisabeth Scholl, Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys.