(Sweelinck/Cramer) SSATB
This brilliant motet by Jan Pieter Sweelinck is a substantial work for better high schools and up; opening with a virtuosic unfolding of imitative vocal phrases followed by a quiet middle section and...
For SATTB and organ continuo - Continuing the Church Music Society series of Sweelinck motets, O sacrum convivium (O sacred banquet) is suitable for any Eucharist outside Lent. The middle section in t...
For SATTB and organ continuo - Sweelinck's setting of the Beatitudes is suitable for any Saint's day or the commemoration of the faithful departed. for the words 'Blessed are they which are persecuted...
Sweelinck's 5-voice (SSATB) Epiphany motet Ab Oriente, published in 1619, is a superb example of his polyphonic fluency and of his vivid response to the imagery of the text, depicting the steady, purp...
Originally part of his longer work Cantiones Sacrae, the canon on the famous text from Ecclesiastes ('Vanity, vanity, all is vanity') was published by Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in 1619....
